Drift Staging
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 49%.
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
203.16.163.8:27387
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 49% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 203.16.163.8:27387
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 5 Oct 2026, 14:21 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 4 Oct 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 Drift Staging's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Drift Staging. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. 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 Drift Staging?
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 50000 is in use on Drift Staging, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map. You see the map name as: Custom Map.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on Drift Staging?
The game's server browser reads the tags Drift Staging publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does Drift Staging appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for Drift Staging: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
Performance of Drift Staging: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 229 server fps; the floor was 198. The entity count reached 19,443: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. It drew as much as 1,871 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find Drift Staging?
No region comes from Drift Staging. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 203.16.163.8:27387.
What's the uptime like on Drift Staging?
Drift Staging is up as you read this. A restart happened about 3 days 15 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Last 4 full days: 100% uptime, with 96 hours up out of 96. The first record Boongarust has is 4 October 2026.
Which Rust build does Drift Staging have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is Drift Staging. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
Wipe day at Drift Staging: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
Drift Staging wipes on what schedule?
Drift Staging'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. 3 days 18 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Drift Staging place?
Player hours over seven days put Drift Staging at #11,179, in the top 49% of all ranked servers.
Is Drift Staging busy?
Drift Staging is showing 0 players on 40 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2.
Join the server
How do you connect to Drift Staging?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 203.16.163.8:27387. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.