Nic Smells
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
198.244.225.63:22648
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
Up 98 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 198.244.225.63:22648
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 3
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 11 Sep 2026, 20:48 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 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 are Nic Smells's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Nic Smells. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is disabled.
What's the map on Nic Smells?
Nic Smells uses a procedural map of 3,000 that the game generates with seed 1. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do Nic Smells's tags signify?
These tags come from Nic Smells and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp3 (Max players): Room for 3; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2633 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2633 or the door stays shut; cs163794 (Build): Game build is 163794; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show Nic Smells?
The Boongarust lists that take Nic Smells are: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
How smooth is Nic Smells?
The 48-hour average was 182 server fps; the floor was 149. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 47,235 entities. At its highest, memory consumption was 4,317 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Nic Smells?
No region comes from Nic Smells. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 198.244.225.63:22648.
What's the uptime like on Nic Smells?
Online: Nic Smells, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 14 days 11 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Nic Smells using?
On Linux, Nic Smells runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How often does Nic Smells wipe?
Nic Smells's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 27 days 1 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Nic Smells place?
Player hours over seven days put Nic Smells at #16,013, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Nic Smells?
0 players are on Nic Smells at the moment, out of 3 slots. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
How to join
How can you get into Nic Smells?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 198.244.225.63:22648. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.