Fossil's Playground
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 53%.
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
51.161.198.94:28055
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 53% of all ranked servers, top 87% in OC. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 51.161.198.94:28055
- Region
- OC
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 23:38 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 2 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 Fossil's Playground's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Fossil's Playground. You can have up to 4 players in a group (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's less punishing mode, keeping some of your loot. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. Rust premium status is required to join. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Fossil's Playground?
A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 3671786 is in use on Fossil's Playground, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Fossil's Playground?
The game's server browser reads the tags Fossil's Playground publishes: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier set of rules: softcore; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts4 (Group limit): No more than 4 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^s (Softcore): Some of your loot stays with you on death. That is softcore; ^q (Premium): Rust premium status is required to join; OC (Oceania): The server browser files it under Oceania. 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 Fossil's Playground?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Fossil's Playground: Oceania Rust servers, live and The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore and Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s and Premium ^q; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
What's the physical location of Fossil's Playground?
The OC tag is what Fossil's Playground uses to list itself in Oceania. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 51.161.198.94:28055.
How often is Fossil's Playground online?
Fossil's Playground is down, with the last sighting 4 days 21 hours ago. 3 hours out of 96 across the last 4 full days. 3% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 2 October 2026.
What Rust version is Fossil's Playground using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is Fossil's Playground. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
How often does Fossil's Playground wipe?
The estimate for Fossil's Playground's next wipe comes from the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world is 5 days old. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Player counts
What's Fossil's Playground's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #12,599 on the week's player hours, Fossil's Playground sits in the top 53% overall and #187 in Oceania. For quad servers, #580 is its place.
What's the player count on Fossil's Playground?
Down right now: Fossil's Playground, last spotted 4 days 21 hours back. It averaged 1 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1.
How to join
How do you connect to Fossil's Playground?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 51.161.198.94:28055. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect. Rust premium status is required to join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^s,OC,gmsoftcore,cs166652,^q,ts4.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.