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
81.159.186.17:28015
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
Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 81.159.186.17:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 100
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 19 Sep 2026, 23:05 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 19 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 PVE Friends use?
There is no gather rate in the name of PVE Friends. It uses the default group size of 8 players. 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. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on PVE Friends?
PVE Friends uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Tags
What are the tags on PVE Friends for?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp100 (Max players): Slot count: 100; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs164530 (Build): Build 164530; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game are the tags PVE Friends puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
Which Boongarust filters show PVE Friends?
On these Boongarust lists you will find PVE Friends: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
What's the physical location of PVE Friends?
From PVE Friends, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 81.159.186.17:28015.
How reliable is PVE Friends?
Offline now, PVE Friends was last seen 18 days 7 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 0% uptime, with 0 hours up out of 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 19 September 2026.
Which Rust build does PVE Friends have?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Linux: that is PVE Friends. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
How often does PVE Friends wipe?
With so few of PVE Friends's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 18 days 8 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
Where does PVE Friends sit in the rankings?
Ranked #13,268 on seven-day player hours, PVE Friends is in the top – overall.
Is PVE Friends busy?
Offline. PVE Friends was last seen 18 days 7 hours ago.
How to join
How can you get into PVE Friends?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 81.159.186.17:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.