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
2.72.69.214:28015
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
Up 7845 places on last week. Top 34% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 2.72.69.214:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 2
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 11:55 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 are BEST RUST's rules and configuration?
The name of BEST RUST does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on BEST RUST?
BEST RUST uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Server tags
What are the tags on BEST RUST for?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp2 (Max players): 2 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags BEST RUST puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. 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 BEST RUST?
The Boongarust lists that take BEST RUST are: 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 info
What's the location of BEST RUST?
No region comes from BEST RUST. 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 2.72.69.214:28015.
What's the uptime like on BEST RUST?
Offline now, BEST RUST was last seen 4 days 8 hours ago. 18 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 11% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does BEST RUST have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows: that is BEST RUST. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How does BEST RUST handle wipe day?
2 players was the average peak on recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in. The crowd stayed above half the peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
How often does BEST RUST wipe?
No next wipe to predict here. BEST RUST goes at irregular times. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 5 days 15 hours old.
Population
What's BEST RUST's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 34% of all ranked servers, BEST RUST is #8,026 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is BEST RUST busy?
BEST RUST last showed life 4 days 8 hours ago; it is offline now. It averaged 1 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2.
Join the server
How do you connect to BEST RUST?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 2.72.69.214:28015. 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 mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.