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
178.177.238.197:28015
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
Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 178.177.238.197:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 15
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 06:22 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 4 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 are nameserver's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of nameserver. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on nameserver?
nameserver uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Tags
What are the tags on nameserver for?
The game's server browser reads the tags nameserver publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp15 (Max players): 15 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; 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; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature nameserver?
The Boongarust lists that take nameserver are: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
What's the location of nameserver?
No region comes from nameserver. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 178.177.238.197:28015.
How reliable is nameserver?
Last seen 2 days 14 hours ago, nameserver is offline at the moment. Last 3 full days: 1% uptime, with 1 hours up out of 72. It entered Boongarust's records on 4 October 2026.
Which Rust build does nameserver have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows: that is nameserver. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
nameserver wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of nameserver's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. 6 days 2 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
What's nameserver's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, nameserver is #16,608 on player hours over the last seven days.
What's the player count on nameserver?
nameserver last showed life 2 days 14 hours ago; it is offline now. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
Join the server
How can you get into nameserver?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 178.177.238.197:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.