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
198.73.57.79:28015
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
Top 66% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 198.73.57.79:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 150
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 4 Oct 2026, 22:12 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 settings does CALI use?
The name of CALI does not include a gather rate. 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 under Community as a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on CALI?
The map on CALI is procedural, size 3,500, generated with seed 648252 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on CALI?
These tags come from CALI and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp150 (Max players): Room for 150; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. 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.
What Boongarust lists feature CALI?
On these Boongarust lists you will find CALI: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
Where can you find CALI?
No region is published by CALI. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 198.73.57.79:28015.
How reliable is CALI?
Offline now, CALI was last seen 3 days 20 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 5%, 9 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is CALI using?
On Windows, CALI runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How does CALI handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 3 players on average. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it. The crowd stayed above half the peak until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 2.
How often does CALI wipe?
CALI wipes when it feels like it, so no next wipe can be predicted. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 4 days 5 hours old.
Population
Where does CALI sit in the rankings?
In the top 66% of all ranked servers, CALI is #15,172 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on CALI?
Offline. CALI was last seen 3 days 20 hours ago. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1.
How to join
What's the process to join CALI?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 198.73.57.79:28015. 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 mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.