[UK] The Circle
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 70%.
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
188.40.106.248:28135
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [UK] The Circle](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/bcf4b8eb28a78e73efcd7095c514f84a9e9b110e8502a267c177ba15f2193719/proceduralmap.3000.1790427186924.288_bcf4b8eb28a78e73efcd7095c514f84a.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 8264 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 188.40.106.248:28135
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 10
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 26 Sep 2026, 12:53 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 [UK] The Circle use?
There is no gather rate in the name of [UK] The Circle. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. Vanilla is its own label: 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 [UK] The Circle?
The map on [UK] The Circle is procedural, size 3,000, generated with seed 707334229 by the game. 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 [UK] The Circle for?
The game's server browser reads the tags [UK] The Circle publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs165217 (Build): Build 165217; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays. 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.
Where does [UK] The Circle appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take [UK] The Circle are: EU Rust servers and Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
How smooth is [UK] The Circle?
The 48-hour average was 118 server fps; the floor was 86. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 47,393 entities. At its highest, memory consumption was 3,097 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the location of [UK] The Circle?
The name [UK] The Circle uses suggests Europe, though it publishes no region tag. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 188.40.106.248:28135.
How reliable is [UK] The Circle?
Online: [UK] The Circle, at this moment. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 8 days 12 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. The first record Boongarust has is 25 September 2026.
What Rust version is [UK] The Circle using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux: that is [UK] The Circle. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
Wipe day at [UK] The Circle: what's it like?
Recent wipes peaked at 1 players on average. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.
When does [UK] The Circle wipe?
The record holds too few of [UK] The Circle's wipes to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 11 days 22 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
Ranking wise, where does [UK] The Circle place?
Ranked #16,557 on seven-day player hours, [UK] The Circle is in the top 70% overall.
What's the player count on [UK] The Circle?
Right now, 0 players are on [UK] The Circle, which has 10 slots. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join [UK] The Circle?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 188.40.106.248:28135. 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^v,gmrust,cs165217,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.