training_grounds
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 69%.
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
168.100.162.11:28085
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 711 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 168.100.162.11:28085
- Region
- –
- Max players
- –
- Group limit
- 16 max
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 7 Oct 2026, 16:13 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.
Map and rules
What are training_grounds's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of training_grounds. The group limit is 16 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. Vanilla is its own label: as Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on training_grounds?
Custom map, size 3,750, on training_grounds. Its published file is downloadable from this page.
Server tags
What do training_grounds's tags signify?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp0 (Max players): Room for 0; ts16 (Group limit): Team size caps at 16; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167058 (Build): Running build 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^t (Tutorial on): The tutorial from Facepunch is on offer for new players; rustmaps (Custom tag): Owner or plugin made this tag. Rust does not ship it are the tags training_grounds puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. 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.
Where does training_grounds appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for training_grounds: Tutorial-on Rust servers, The busiest community servers in Rust and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.
Server info
Performance of training_grounds: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 30 server fps; the floor was 30. At its peak, it held 92,717 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,910 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of training_grounds?
From training_grounds, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 168.100.162.11:28085.
How reliable is training_grounds?
training_grounds is up as you read this. A restart happened about 20 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Last 7 full days: 90% uptime, with 151 hours up out of 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
What Rust version is training_grounds using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Linux: that is training_grounds. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at training_grounds?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 0 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 1 hours after it.
training_grounds wipes on what schedule?
There is no predicting the next wipe: training_grounds wipes at irregular times. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. The world you are on was made 22 hours.
Population
Where does training_grounds sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put training_grounds at #16,408, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on training_grounds?
0 players are on training_grounds at the moment. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
How can you get into training_grounds?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 168.100.162.11:28085. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. You can find its website at https://forum.rustafied.com/store/product/75-sea-medium/.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp0,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167058,ts16,rustmaps.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.