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
69.164.248.235:28080
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 36% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 69.164.248.235:28080
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 10 Oct 2026, 15:32 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 10 Oct 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 settings does The Couch use?
There is no gather rate in the name of The Couch. It uses the default group size of 8 players. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on The Couch?
The map on The Couch is procedural, size 4,581, generated with seed 481981 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on The Couch?
These tags come from The Couch and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167398 (Build): Build 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does The Couch appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take The Couch 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 24 hours.
Server details
Performance of The Couch: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 113, with a low of 92. The entity count reached 123,043: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 2,867 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of The Couch?
No region is published by The Couch. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 69.164.248.235:28080.
How often is The Couch online?
The Couch is up as you read this. A restart happened about 6 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. It entered Boongarust's records on 10 October 2026.
What Rust version is The Couch using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows: that is The Couch. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
When does The Couch wipe?
The record holds too few of The Couch'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. Its world is 8 hours old.
Player counts
What's The Couch's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 36% of all ranked servers, The Couch is #8,143 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on The Couch?
Right now, 0 players are on The Couch, which has 50 slots. The average over the last seven days was 1 players, with a peak of 3. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 20:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
How to join
What's the process to join The Couch?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 69.164.248.235:28080. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.