Salty Test
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 26%.
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
194.69.160.182:28015
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 389 places on last week. Top 26% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
RAIDABLE BASES | ZOMBIES | XP/SKILLS | BOSSES | QUESTS | RAIDING NPCS EVENTS: Armored Train, Convoy, Sputnik, Junkyard Showdown, Gas Station, Contributions FEATURES: Enchants, Custom Weapons, Jet Packs, Summonable Heli & Bradley, Anti-Grub, Custom Maps, Farm Enchants, Skins, Personal Portals, Virtual Quarries, Unbreakable Minis, Kits, Vote Rewards, Virtual Backpack, Personal Recycler, Stacking Chests, Auto-Looting WHY PLAY HERE? • Progress through 15 unique skill paths including mining, raiding, farming, and more, with gather rates scaling from x1 to x5 before tea or pie bonuses. • Raid more than 300 unique NPC bases. • Defend your own base against raiding NPC attacks. • Survive nightly zombie hordes and take on unique bosses. • Complete 100+ quests and take part in story-driven server-wide contributions. • Summon Patrol Helicopters and Bradley APCs right at front of your base. • Explore fresh custom maps every wipe. • Use a 16-enchant system on clothing, weapons, and tools to build your own playstyle. • Access custom weapons like the MLRS Rocket Launcher or an M249 with double magazine size. • Use enchanted farm equipment like plots, beehives, and chicken coops with fixed stats unaffected by the environment. • Enjoy weekly skin updates, a large custom skin collection, and the ability to request skins you want added. • Use the teleport hub system and personal placed portals to travel around the map with ease. • Play with full anti-grub protection across events, monuments and regural PVE activities.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 194.69.160.182:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 20
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:10 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
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Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What are Salty Test's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Salty Test. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Carbon. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Salty Test?
The map on Salty Test is procedural, size 4,500, generated with seed 1337 by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page. You see the map name as: Custom Map.
Server tags
What are the tags on Salty Test for?
These tags come from Salty Test and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp20 (Max players): 20 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; cs167231 (Build): Build 167231; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon. 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 Salty Test appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Salty Test: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
How smooth is Salty Test?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 93, with a low of 17. At its peak, it held 147,372 entities, including buildings and deployables. At its highest, memory consumption was 6,376 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of Salty Test?
From Salty Test, 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 194.69.160.182:28015.
How reliable is Salty Test?
Online: Salty Test, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 14 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Salty Test using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Linux: that is Salty Test. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
How does Salty Test handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 1 players on average. 12 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half the peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
How often does Salty Test wipe?
There is no predicting the next wipe: Salty Test wipes at irregular times. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. 7 days 10 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Salty Test place?
Player hours over seven days put Salty Test at #5,926, in the top 26% of all ranked servers.
Is Salty Test busy?
Salty Test is showing 0 players on 20 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 10:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Join the server
How can you get into Salty Test?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 194.69.160.182:28015. 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 mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8,^z,^y.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.