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
194.58.168.152:28015
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
Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 194.58.168.152:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 11 Sep 2026, 08:51 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 15 Sep 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 VanillaRust's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of VanillaRust. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on VanillaRust?
VanillaRust uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Tags
What are the tags on VanillaRust for?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2633 to get in; cs163794 (Build): Running build 163794; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags VanillaRust puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
Where does VanillaRust appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take VanillaRust are: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
Where can you find VanillaRust?
No region comes from VanillaRust. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 194.58.168.152:28015.
How reliable is VanillaRust?
VanillaRust is down, with the last sighting 21 days 13 hours ago. 0 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 0% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 15 September 2026.
What Rust version is VanillaRust using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794 on Windows: that is VanillaRust. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
When does VanillaRust wipe?
VanillaRust's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 26 days 23 hours old.
Population
Where does VanillaRust sit in the rankings?
In the top – of all ranked servers, VanillaRust is #15,250 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is VanillaRust busy?
VanillaRust last showed life 21 days 13 hours ago; it is offline now.
Join the server
How can you get into VanillaRust?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 194.58.168.152:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.