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
79.117.241.118:28025
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 53% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 79.117.241.118:28025
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 1
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 4 Oct 2026, 12:51 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 4 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 are Vanilla Server's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Vanilla Server. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Vanilla Server?
Vanilla Server uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Tags
What do Vanilla Server's tags signify?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): Room for 1; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags Vanilla Server puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. 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 Vanilla Server?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Vanilla Server: 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 week.
Server info
What's the physical location of Vanilla Server?
No region is published by Vanilla Server. 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 79.117.241.118:28025.
How reliable is Vanilla Server?
Last seen 4 days 8 hours ago, Vanilla Server is offline at the moment. Last 3 full days: 0% uptime, with 0 hours up out of 72. It entered Boongarust's records on 4 October 2026.
Which Rust build does Vanilla Server have?
On Windows, Vanilla Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
Vanilla Server wipes on what schedule?
With so few of Vanilla Server's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. The world you are on was made 4 days 9 hours.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Vanilla Server place?
Ranked #12,330 on seven-day player hours, Vanilla Server is in the top 53% overall.
Is Vanilla Server busy?
Down right now: Vanilla Server, last spotted 4 days 8 hours back. The average over the last seven days was 1 players, with a peak of 1.
Join the server
How do you connect to Vanilla Server?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.117.241.118:28025. 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 mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.