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
177.188.250.135:28015
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 781 places on last week. Top 59% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 177.188.250.135:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- –
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 22:07 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 25 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 Test Server use?
No gather rate appears in the name of Test Server. It uses the default group size of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. The server has VAC on.
Tags
What are the tags on Test Server for?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp0 (Max players): 0 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166586 (Build): Running build 166586; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags Test Server puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature Test Server?
The Boongarust lists that take Test Server are: 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 2 weeks.
Server details
Where can you find Test Server?
No region is published by Test Server. 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 177.188.250.135:28015.
How often is Test Server online?
Offline now, Test Server was last seen 6 days 16 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 1% uptime, with 2 hours up out of 168. The first record Boongarust has is 25 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Test Server have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Windows: that is Test Server. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
Wipe day at Test Server: what's it like?
Recent wipes peaked at 1 players on average. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it. In 100% of recent wipes, half the peak was the floor until the next wipe.
How often does Test Server wipe?
No next wipe to predict here. Test Server goes at irregular times. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 7 days 3 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
What's Test Server's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 59% of all ranked servers, Test Server is #13,558 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is Test Server busy?
Down right now: Test Server, last spotted 6 days 16 hours back. It averaged 1 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1.
How to join
What's the process to join Test Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 177.188.250.135:28015. 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 mp0,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.