Test Server
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 70%.
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
85.238.79.200:28088
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 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 85.238.79.200:28088
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 10
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 5 Sep 2026, 16:20 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 3 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 Test Server's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Test Server. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. The server has VAC on.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on Test Server?
The game's server browser reads the tags Test Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp10 (Max players): 10 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs163207 (Build): Running build 163207; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature Test Server?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Test Server: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
What's the location of Test Server?
From Test Server, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 85.238.79.200:28088.
How reliable is Test Server?
Right now Test Server is live. 96 hours out of 96 across the last 4 full days. 100% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 3 October 2026.
What Rust version is Test Server using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Linux: that is Test Server. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
Test Server wipes on what schedule?
Test Server's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 32 days 18 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Test Server place?
Ranked #16,557 on seven-day player hours, Test Server is in the top 70% overall.
Is Test Server busy?
Right now, 0 players are on Test Server, which has 10 slots. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
Join the server
How do you connect to Test Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 85.238.79.200:28088. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.