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
84.181.127.216:28025
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
Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 84.181.127.216:28025
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 1
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 17 Sep 2026, 14:06 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 16 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 are Vanilla Server's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of Vanilla Server. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Vanilla Server?
The map on Vanilla Server is procedural, created by the game.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Vanilla Server?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Vanilla, straight up; mp1 (Max players): Slot count: 1; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs164530 (Build): Running build 164530; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record 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?
The Boongarust lists that take Vanilla Server are: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
Where can you find Vanilla Server?
No region is published by Vanilla Server. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 84.181.127.216:28025.
How reliable is Vanilla Server?
Last seen 20 days 19 hours ago, Vanilla Server is offline at the moment. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 0%, 0 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 16 September 2026.
What Rust version is Vanilla Server using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Windows: that is Vanilla Server. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
How does Vanilla Server handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
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. Its world is 20 days 19 hours old.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Vanilla Server place?
In the top – of all ranked servers, Vanilla Server is #15,491 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is Vanilla Server busy?
Down right now: Vanilla Server, last spotted 20 days 19 hours back.
Join the server
What's the process to join Vanilla Server?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 84.181.127.216:28025. 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?,v2633,gmvanilla,cs164530,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.