[UK PVE] Ancient Dragon
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
173.234.137.174:28215
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/618d59549538a0094aca364661fd7f3fa6c9f55c73c43b1712240ed93baf5496/proceduralmap.6000.1788740141134.288_618d59549538a0094aca364661fd7f3f.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 86% in EU. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 173.234.137.174:28215
- Region
- EU
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 7 Sep 2026, 00:17 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 21 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 settings does [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon use?
No gather rate appears in the name of [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. pve is the game mode, player-versus-player combat is off. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. You find Oxide plugins in use. It claims vanilla status: vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon?
[UK PVE] Ancient Dragon uses a procedural map of 6,000 that the game generates with seed 2147483647. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon?
These tags come from [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs163207 (Build): Running build 163207; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight players; the environment does the killing; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game; EU (Europe): You will find it in the browser under Europe. 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 [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon: EU Rust servers, Top modded Rust servers and Best Rust PvE servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
What's the physical location of [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon?
The EU tag is what [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon uses to list itself in Europe. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 173.234.137.174:28215.
How reliable is [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon?
Last seen 2 days 19 hours ago, [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon is offline at the moment. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 18%, 30 hours from 168. 21 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon have?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Windows: that is [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
[UK PVE] Ancient Dragon wipes on what schedule?
With so few of [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 32 days 5 hours old.
Population
Where does [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon sit in the rankings?
In the top 69% of all ranked servers, [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon is #15,916 on player hours over the last seven days and #2,472 in Europe.
What's the player count on [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon?
Offline. [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon was last seen 2 days 19 hours ago. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join [UK PVE] Ancient Dragon?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 173.234.137.174:28215. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^p,^v,EU,^p,gmrust,cs163207,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.