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
216.138.10.158:28015
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 504 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 216.138.10.158:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 08:19 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_BUDS's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of BEST_BUDS. It uses the default group size of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on BEST_BUDS?
BEST_BUDS uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 1337. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on BEST_BUDS?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166586 (Build): Running build 166586; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank are the tags BEST_BUDS puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. 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 BEST_BUDS?
The Boongarust lists that take BEST_BUDS are: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
How smooth is BEST_BUDS?
Server fps held an average of 64 across the last 48 hours, minimum 38. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 120,731 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,579 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of BEST_BUDS?
No region comes from BEST_BUDS. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 216.138.10.158:28015.
How reliable is BEST_BUDS?
BEST_BUDS is up as you read this. A restart happened about 5 days 19 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does BEST_BUDS have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Linux: that is BEST_BUDS. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
Wipe day at BEST_BUDS: what's it like?
0 players was the average peak on recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
How often does BEST_BUDS wipe?
With so few of BEST_BUDS's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are on was made 5 days 21 hours.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does BEST_BUDS place?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, BEST_BUDS is #16,615 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is BEST_BUDS busy?
0 players are on BEST_BUDS at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
Join the server
How can you get into BEST_BUDS?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 216.138.10.158:28015. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.