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
65.21.84.250:28015
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 518 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 65.21.84.250:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 100
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 23:28 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 29 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 Smelly Shaft's rules and configuration?
The name of Smelly Shaft does not include a gather rate. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Smelly Shaft?
The map on Smelly Shaft is procedural, size 4,500, generated with seed 1907403889 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 Smelly Shaft?
The game's server browser reads the tags Smelly Shaft publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp100 (Max players): 100 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166494 (Build): Running build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. 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 Smelly Shaft?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Smelly Shaft: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
What's the physical location of Smelly Shaft?
No region comes from Smelly Shaft. 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 65.21.84.250:28015.
What's the uptime like on Smelly Shaft?
Last seen 6 days 1 hours ago, Smelly Shaft is offline at the moment. 25 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 15% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 29 September 2026.
What Rust version is Smelly Shaft using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux: that is Smelly Shaft. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at Smelly Shaft?
0 players was the average peak on recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
How often does Smelly Shaft wipe?
Smelly Shaft wipes with the force wipe, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are on was made 6 days 5 hours.
Population
Where does Smelly Shaft sit in the rankings?
Ranked #16,629 on seven-day player hours, Smelly Shaft is in the top 70% overall.
How many players are on Smelly Shaft?
Smelly Shaft last showed life 6 days 1 hours ago; it is offline now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
How do you connect to Smelly Shaft?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 65.21.84.250:28015. 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 mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.