THETESTER
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
20.169.53.178:28015
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 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 20.169.53.178:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 500
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 22:09 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 3 Oct 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 THETESTER's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of THETESTER. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, 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. Plugins running: Carbon. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is disabled.
Tags
How should you read the tags on THETESTER?
The game's server browser reads the tags THETESTER publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp500 (Max players): 500 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166655 (Build): Game build is 166655; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature THETESTER?
On these Boongarust lists you will find THETESTER: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
What's the physical location of THETESTER?
No region comes from THETESTER. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 20.169.53.178:28015.
How reliable is THETESTER?
Offline now, THETESTER was last seen 4 days 7 hours ago. Uptime over the last 4 full days came to 0%, 0 hours from 96. The first record Boongarust has is 3 October 2026.
Which Rust build does THETESTER have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166655 on Windows: that is THETESTER. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How often does THETESTER wipe?
THETESTER's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 4 days 7 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does THETESTER place?
Player hours over seven days put THETESTER at #16,615, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on THETESTER?
THETESTER last showed life 4 days 7 hours ago; it is offline now. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join THETESTER?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 20.169.53.178:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166655,ts8,^z,^y.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.