Friend Only
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
210.131.220.42:28015
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
Down 488 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 210.131.220.42:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 5
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 25 Aug 2026, 13:07 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 are Friend Only's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Friend Only. It uses the default group size of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. 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 Friend Only?
The map on Friend Only is procedural, size 3,500, generated with seed 17777 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
What are the tags on Friend Only for?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp5 (Max players): Room for 5; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2632 (Protocol): Protocol 2632: match it or you cannot join; cs161125 (Build): Running build 161125; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game are the tags Friend Only 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.
Which Boongarust filters show Friend Only?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for Friend Only: 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 info
Is Friend Only laggy?
Server fps held an average of 101 across the last 48 hours, minimum 64. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 64,683 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,809 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the physical location of Friend Only?
From Friend Only, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 210.131.220.42:28015.
How often is Friend Only online?
Right now Friend Only is live. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 6 days 2 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Friend Only using?
On Linux, Friend Only runs Rust network protocol 2632 and build 161125. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
When does Friend Only wipe?
The record holds too few of Friend Only's wipes to tell its rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 43 days 17 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
Where does Friend Only sit in the rankings?
Ranked #16,599 on seven-day player hours, Friend Only is in the top 70% overall.
Is Friend Only busy?
Friend Only is showing 0 players on 5 slots right now. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
How to join
What's the process to join Friend Only?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 210.131.220.42:28015. 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2632,gmrust,cs161125,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.