Rusty Balloon Knot
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 28%.
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
172.240.53.131:2856
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
Up 5091 places on last week. Top 28% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 172.240.53.131:2856
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 150
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 21:02 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 1 Oct 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 settings does Rusty Balloon Knot use?
The name of Rusty Balloon Knot does not include a gather rate. It uses the default group size of 8 players. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. You find Oxide plugins in use. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on Rusty Balloon Knot?
Rusty Balloon Knot uses a procedural map of 3,500 that the game generates with seed 1862422565. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Server tags
What are the tags on Rusty Balloon Knot for?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp150 (Max players): Room for 150; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166494 (Build): Game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays are the tags Rusty Balloon Knot puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
What Boongarust lists feature Rusty Balloon Knot?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Rusty Balloon Knot: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server details
Performance of Rusty Balloon Knot: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 91 server fps; the floor was 39. The entity count reached 69,390: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. It drew as much as 3,411 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find Rusty Balloon Knot?
From Rusty Balloon Knot, there is no region. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 172.240.53.131:2856.
How reliable is Rusty Balloon Knot?
Right now Rusty Balloon Knot is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 5 days 22 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 1 October 2026.
Which Rust build does Rusty Balloon Knot have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux: that is Rusty Balloon Knot. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How does Rusty Balloon Knot handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. 25 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does Rusty Balloon Knot wipe?
Once a month: Rusty Balloon Knot wipes at the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world is 7 days 8 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Rusty Balloon Knot place?
Player hours over seven days put Rusty Balloon Knot at #6,484, in the top 28% of all ranked servers.
Is Rusty Balloon Knot busy?
Right now, 0 players are on Rusty Balloon Knot, which has 150 slots. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2. It was busiest at 23:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 1 players on average.
Join the server
How do you connect to Rusty Balloon Knot?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 172.240.53.131:2856. 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 mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.