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
98.97.143.97:28015
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 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 98.97.143.97:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 7
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 25 Sep 2026, 00:30 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 4 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 settings does TEST use?
No gather rate appears in the name of TEST. 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. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on TEST?
TEST uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Tags
What are the tags on TEST for?
The game's server browser reads the tags TEST publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp7 (Max players): Room for 7; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2633 to get in; cs164530 (Build): Game build is 164530; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature TEST?
On these Boongarust lists you will find TEST: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server details
What's the physical location of TEST?
No region comes from TEST. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 98.97.143.97:28015.
What's the uptime like on TEST?
Last seen 3 days 3 hours ago, TEST is offline at the moment. Uptime over the last 3 full days came to 0%, 0 hours from 72. It entered Boongarust's records on 4 October 2026.
What Rust version is TEST using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Windows: that is TEST. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How often does TEST wipe?
The record holds too few of TEST's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. The world you are on was made 13 days 1 hours.
Player counts
Where does TEST sit in the rankings?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, TEST is #16,674 on player hours over the last seven days.
What's the player count on TEST?
Offline. TEST was last seen 3 days 3 hours ago. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join TEST?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 98.97.143.97:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp7,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.