Winter Rust
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 68%.
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
72.71.228.208:28015
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 1061 places on last week. Top 68% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 72.71.228.208:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 200
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 09:44 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 25 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 Winter Rust's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Winter Rust. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is off: Valve's anti-cheat is not running.
What's the map on Winter Rust?
Winter Rust uses a procedural map of 4,250 that the game generates with seed 1. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What are the tags on Winter Rust for?
These tags come from Winter Rust and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp200 (Max players): Room for 200; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game. 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 Winter Rust?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Winter Rust: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Is Winter Rust laggy?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 225, with a low of 206. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 103,183 entities. It drew as much as 3,939 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the physical location of Winter Rust?
No region is published by Winter Rust. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 72.71.228.208:28015.
How reliable is Winter Rust?
Online: Winter Rust, at this moment. A restart happened about 2 days 22 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. 145 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 86% uptime. 25 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does Winter Rust have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is Winter Rust. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
How does Winter Rust handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 0 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
How often does Winter Rust wipe?
Winter Rust's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 5 days old.
Player counts
What's Winter Rust's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 68% of all ranked servers, Winter Rust is #16,102 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on Winter Rust?
Right now, 0 players are on Winter Rust, which has 200 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 17:00 UTC, with an average of 0 players.
How to join
How do you connect to Winter Rust?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 72.71.228.208:28015. 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 mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.