Build Contest
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
64.20.40.98:27058
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 473 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Untill the contest starts feel free to build whatever. I can copy your base and paste it anytime. Just Message Leahcim in Discord.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 64.20.40.98:27058
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 22:02 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 Build Contest's rules and configuration?
The name of Build Contest does not include a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as build & creative, building in a sandbox, with no gathering. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Oxide. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on Build Contest?
Build Contest uses a procedural map of 3,500 that the game generates with seed 1337. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page. The map is called Custom Map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Build Contest?
These tags come from Build Contest and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; 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): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^c (Creative): Creative mode: the materials are there, so build what you want; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference. 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.
Where does Build Contest appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take Build Contest are: Top modded Rust servers, Rust build and creative servers and Busiest Rust creative servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Is Build Contest laggy?
The 48-hour average was 40 server fps; the floor was 38. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 65,257 entities. It drew as much as 2,267 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Build Contest?
From Build Contest, there is no region. 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 64.20.40.98:27058.
What's the uptime like on Build Contest?
Build Contest is down, with the last sighting 11 hours ago. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 23 hours ago. 143 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 85% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Build Contest have?
On Linux, Build Contest runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at Build Contest?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
How often does Build Contest wipe?
Build Contest's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 5 days 11 hours old.
Player counts
Where does Build Contest sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put Build Contest at #16,584, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Build Contest?
Build Contest last showed life 11 hours ago; it is offline now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join Build Contest?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 64.20.40.98:27058. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. Find it at https://discord.com/invite/Yk2bBhmVwP.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^c,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.