FriendsCore
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 29%.
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
178.140.221.43:28015
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 624 places on last week. Top 29% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 178.140.221.43:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 500
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 19:35 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 FriendsCore's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of FriendsCore. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins running: Carbon. It claims vanilla status: vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on FriendsCore?
The map on FriendsCore is procedural, size 6,000, generated with seed 717284259 by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
What do FriendsCore's tags signify?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp500 (Max players): Slot count: 500; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptsw (Networking): It runs on sw; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon are the tags FriendsCore 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.
Where does FriendsCore appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for FriendsCore: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
Performance of FriendsCore: does it hold up?
Server fps held an average of 220 across the last 48 hours, minimum 182. The entity count reached 205,936: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory consumption was 5,523 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of FriendsCore?
From FriendsCore, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 178.140.221.43:28015.
What's the uptime like on FriendsCore?
Online: FriendsCore, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 9 hours ago. 156 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 93% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does FriendsCore have?
On Windows, FriendsCore runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at FriendsCore?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 3 players. 12 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
How often does FriendsCore wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for FriendsCore, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. Its world is 4 days 16 hours old. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
What's FriendsCore's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #6,819 on seven-day player hours, FriendsCore is in the top 29% overall.
What's the player count on FriendsCore?
FriendsCore is showing 0 players on 500 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 13:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.
How to join
How do you connect to FriendsCore?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 178.140.221.43:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect. You can find its website at https://kupol.at.ua/.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp500,ptsw,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,^v,gmvanilla,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.