Salty Test
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 69%.
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
194.69.160.182:28025
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 3628 places on last week. Top 69% 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
- 194.69.160.182:28025
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 20
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 30 Sep 2026, 17:38 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 17 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 settings does Salty Test use?
No gather rate appears in the name of Salty Test. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. You find Carbon plugins in use. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Salty Test?
Salty Test uses a procedural map of 3,500 that the game generates with seed 1337. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page. Custom Map is the map name.
Server tags
What do Salty Test's tags signify?
These tags come from Salty Test and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp20 (Max players): Room for 20; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166388 (Build): Running build 166388; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; ^y (Carbon): Carbon handles the plugins here. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does Salty Test appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Salty Test: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
Performance of Salty Test: does it hold up?
Server fps held an average of 57 across the last 48 hours, minimum 27. At its peak, it held 81,331 entities, including buildings and deployables. It drew as much as 7,029 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
Where can you find Salty Test?
No region comes from Salty Test. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 194.69.160.182:28025.
How reliable is Salty Test?
Salty Test is up as you read this. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 8 days 1 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 17 September 2026.
What Rust version is Salty Test using?
On Linux, Salty Test runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166388. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at Salty Test?
Recent wipes peaked at 1 players on average. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does Salty Test wipe?
Salty Test wipes when it feels like it, so no next wipe can be predicted. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 8 days 2 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Salty Test place?
Ranked #16,036 on seven-day player hours, Salty Test is in the top 69% overall.
What's the player count on Salty Test?
Salty Test is showing 0 players on 20 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join Salty Test?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 194.69.160.182:28025. 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,cs166388,ts8,^z,^y.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.