Sober Rust
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 71%.
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
188.42.131.180:28015
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 71% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 188.42.131.180:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 12 Oct 2026, 04:46 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 12 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What are Sober Rust's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Sober Rust. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Sober Rust?
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 612351 is in use on Sober Rust, made by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Server tags
What do Sober Rust's tags signify?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167398 (Build): Build 167398; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank are the tags Sober Rust puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. 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.
Which Boongarust filters show Sober Rust?
The Boongarust lists that take Sober Rust 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 3 days.
Server info
How smooth is Sober Rust?
Server fps held an average of 60 across the last 48 hours, minimum 60. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 45,131 entities. It drew as much as 1,725 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Sober Rust?
From Sober Rust, there is no region. 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 188.42.131.180:28015.
How often is Sober Rust online?
Right now Sober Rust is live. A restart happened about 29 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. It entered Boongarust's records on 12 October 2026.
What Rust version is Sober Rust using?
On Windows, Sober Rust runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
How often does Sober Rust wipe?
With so few of Sober Rust's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 30 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
Where does Sober Rust sit in the rankings?
Ranked #15,982 on seven-day player hours, Sober Rust is in the top 71% overall.
What's the player count on Sober Rust?
Right now, 0 players are on Sober Rust, which has 50 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join Sober Rust?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 188.42.131.180:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect. Find it at https://low.ms/game-servers/rust-server-hosting.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167398,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.