Nix Sandbox
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 25%.
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
89.57.112.28:28015
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
Down 578 places on last week. Top 25% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 89.57.112.28:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 6 Sep 2026, 13:40 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 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 Nix Sandbox's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Nix Sandbox. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. 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. You find Carbon plugins in use. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on Nix Sandbox?
The game's server browser reads the tags Nix Sandbox publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp50 (Max players): 50 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166494 (Build): Build 166494; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon. 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 Nix Sandbox?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for Nix Sandbox: Top modded Rust servers and Rust build and creative servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
What's the physical location of Nix Sandbox?
No region comes from Nix Sandbox. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 89.57.112.28:28015.
What's the uptime like on Nix Sandbox?
Last seen 4 hours ago, Nix Sandbox is offline at the moment. 39 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 23% uptime. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
What Rust version is Nix Sandbox using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows: that is Nix Sandbox. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
How does Nix Sandbox handle wipe day?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
Nix Sandbox wipes on what schedule?
The force wipe is the only wipe for Nix Sandbox, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world is 31 days 10 hours old.
Population
What's Nix Sandbox's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put Nix Sandbox at #5,874, in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on Nix Sandbox?
Nix Sandbox last showed life 4 hours ago; it is offline now. The average over the last seven days was 1 players, with a peak of 1. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 14:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join Nix Sandbox?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 89.57.112.28:28015. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8,^z,^y.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.