testing server
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 59%.
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
73.158.226.93:28001
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 59% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 73.158.226.93:28001
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- weekly
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 23:48 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 17 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 settings does testing server use?
The name of testing server does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Server tags
What are the tags on testing server for?
These tags come from testing server and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp40 (Max players): 40 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^w (Weekly): Wipes every seven days; ^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.
What Boongarust lists feature testing server?
The Boongarust lists that take testing server are: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
What's the location of testing server?
No region is published by testing server. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 73.158.226.93:28001.
How reliable is testing server?
Last seen 36 hours ago, testing server is offline at the moment. Last 7 full days: 59% uptime, with 99 hours up out of 168. The first record Boongarust has is 17 September 2026.
Which Rust build does testing server have?
On Linux, testing server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How does testing server handle wipe day?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
How often does testing server wipe?
The prediction goes by its tag, because too few of testing server's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. Friday 9 October at 23:48 UTC is when the next wipe comes. Its world is 5 days 19 hours old. Its tags say it wipes weekly.
Population
Where does testing server sit in the rankings?
Ranked #13,778 on seven-day player hours, testing server is in the top 59% overall.
How many players are on testing server?
Down right now: testing server, last spotted 36 hours back. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 1.
Join the server
What's the process to join testing server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 73.158.226.93:28001. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^w,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.