Matt and Friends
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 71%.
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
73.20.18.177:28015
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 1436 places on last week. Top 71% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 73.20.18.177:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 4
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 13 Aug 2026, 00:17 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 settings does Matt and Friends use?
There is no gather rate in the name of Matt and Friends. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Matt and Friends?
Matt and Friends uses a procedural map of 3,000 that the game generates with seed 8675309. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
What are the tags on Matt and Friends for?
These tags come from Matt and Friends and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp4 (Max players): Slot count: 4; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs165217 (Build): Build 165217; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does Matt and Friends appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take Matt and Friends are: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
What's the physical location of Matt and Friends?
From Matt and Friends, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 73.20.18.177:28015.
How reliable is Matt and Friends?
Last seen 9 days 6 hours ago, Matt and Friends is offline at the moment. 0 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 0% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 29 September 2026.
What Rust version is Matt and Friends using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows: that is Matt and Friends. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
Matt and Friends wipes on what schedule?
With so few of Matt and Friends's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 56 days 13 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
Where does Matt and Friends sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put Matt and Friends at #16,908, in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on Matt and Friends?
Down right now: Matt and Friends, last spotted 9 days 6 hours back.
Join the server
How can you get into Matt and Friends?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 73.20.18.177:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp4,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.