Nightfall
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 44%.
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
81.161.83.39:28015
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
Top 44% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 81.161.83.39:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 20
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 12 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 12 Oct 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 Nightfall's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of Nightfall. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. pve is the game mode, player-versus-player combat is off. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Carbon. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Nightfall?
Nightfall uses a procedural map of 4,096 that the game generates with seed 1337. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map. Custom Map is the map name.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Nightfall?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp20 (Max players): 20 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167584 (Build): Game build is 167584; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight players; the environment does the killing; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game; ^y (Carbon): Carbon handles the plugins here are the tags Nightfall 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 Nightfall?
The Boongarust lists that take Nightfall are: Top modded Rust servers and Best Rust PvE servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.
Server info
Is Nightfall laggy?
Server fps held an average of 51 across the last 48 hours, minimum 15. At its peak, it held 110,406 entities, including buildings and deployables. It drew as much as 3,595 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Nightfall?
From Nightfall, there is no region. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 81.161.83.39:28015.
How often is Nightfall online?
Nightfall is up as you read this. A restart happened about 21 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. The first record Boongarust has is 12 October 2026.
Which Rust build does Nightfall have?
On Linux, Nightfall runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
Nightfall wipes on what schedule?
Nightfall'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. 23 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
What's Nightfall's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #9,803 on seven-day player hours, Nightfall is in the top 44% overall.
Is Nightfall busy?
Right now, 0 players are on Nightfall, which has 20 slots. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Join the server
How can you get into Nightfall?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 81.161.83.39:28015. 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 mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^p,gmrust,cs167584,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.