Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
167.179.166.219:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 671 places on last week. Top 36% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 167.179.166.219:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 2
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 01:53 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What settings does thegibson use?
No gather rate appears in the name of thegibson. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is disabled.
What's the map on thegibson?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 15945 is in use on thegibson, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do thegibson's tags signify?
The game's server browser reads the tags thegibson publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp2 (Max players): 2 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature thegibson?
On these Boongarust lists you will find thegibson: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Is thegibson laggy?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 100, with a low of 83. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 113,877 entities. It drew as much as 4,387 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the physical location of thegibson?
No region is published by thegibson. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 167.179.166.219:28015.
How often is thegibson online?
thegibson is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 4 days 23 hours ago. 156 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 93% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is thegibson using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is thegibson. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How does thegibson handle wipe day?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 2 hours after it.
How often does thegibson wipe?
thegibson's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 5 days old.
Population
Where does thegibson sit in the rankings?
Ranked #8,470 on seven-day player hours, thegibson is in the top 36% overall.
What's the player count on thegibson?
thegibson is showing 0 players on 2 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1. It was busiest at 03:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 1 players on average.
Join the server
How do you connect to thegibson?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 167.179.166.219:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.