Phool's Gold
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 70%.
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
198.73.57.166:28035
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 488 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 198.73.57.166:28035
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 30
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 4 Sep 2026, 19:02 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.
Server rules
What settings does Phool's Gold use?
There is no gather rate in the name of Phool's Gold. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Phool's Gold?
Phool's Gold uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 648252. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Server tags
What do Phool's Gold's tags signify?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp30 (Max players): Slot count: 30; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs163207 (Build): Game build is 163207; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays are the tags Phool's Gold puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does Phool's Gold appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Phool's Gold: 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
Performance of Phool's Gold: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 78 server fps; the floor was 62. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 118,704 entities. Memory use peaked at 5,071 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the location of Phool's Gold?
No region is published by Phool's Gold. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 198.73.57.166:28035.
What's the uptime like on Phool's Gold?
Right now Phool's Gold is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 7 days 18 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Phool's Gold using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Windows: that is Phool's Gold. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
How often does Phool's Gold wipe?
Phool's Gold'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. 33 days 11 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
What's Phool's Gold's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #16,599 on seven-day player hours, Phool's Gold is in the top 70% overall.
How many players are on Phool's Gold?
Right now, 0 players are on Phool's Gold, which has 30 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
How do you connect to Phool's Gold?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 198.73.57.166:28035. 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 mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.