Server profile
The Batcave
Offline, with 0 of 40 players on; ranked #15,150 of every public Rust server, the top 70%. It last wiped 21d ago.
Offline 157.85.86.153:28015 checked 12d ago
The crowd
Players
Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.
Source: every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.
Note: daily average and peak, UTC.
Under the hood
Server performance
Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.
Note: 48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 6 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The standings
Rank
Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.
Note: Top 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
The wipe cycle
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 15h. The force wipe
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
Note: Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
If you like this one
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe cycle
When does The Batcave wipe, and how often?
An estimate from the force wipe gives the next wipe on The Batcave. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the force wipe that applies to all Rust servers. 21 days 21 hours have passed since its current world was created. Wipes run monthly, as its tags say.
Server
On what version does The Batcave currently run?
The Rust build is network protocol 2634 and build 166652, running on Linux, for The Batcave. You can only join if your game is on the same protocol; Steam handles that update.
How reliable is The Batcave, and is it up at the moment?
The last sighting of The Batcave was 12 days 19 hours ago, and it is offline at present. The last 7 full days gave 0 of 168 hours up, or 0% of the time. The first record Rust Insights has of it is 6 October 2026.
Where does The Batcave run from?
A region is not published by The Batcave. The location shown on Rust Insights is the one a server states, not a lookup of where the machine sits. 157.85.86.153:28015 is where it answers.
Tags
What is meant by each tag on The Batcave?
The tags gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): It holds 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: 8 per team at most; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2634; cs166652 (Build): It runs game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes monthly, together with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, placing it under Modded are what The Batcave publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. Current players, queue length and the age of the world sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
On which Rust Insights lists does The Batcave appear?
The Batcave appears among the following Rust Insights lists: Modded Rust servers, explained. On the server list, the filters that surface it are Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Population history
How many players are on The Batcave right now, and how does that number move?
The Batcave is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 12 days 19 hours ago.
How does The Batcave compare with other Rust servers in the ranking?
The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts The Batcave at #15,150, among the top 70% of all ranked servers.
Settings and rules
What are the settings and rules for The Batcave?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Batcave. No group limit is set, so the game's default of 8 players applies. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. It is a Modded entry: plugins or settings modify the game. Oxide is the plugin count it runs. Anti-cheat: VAC, from Valve, is on.
Which map is live on The Batcave?
The Batcave runs a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 50000, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.
Connecting
What is the way to join The Batcave?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 157.85.86.153:28015. You can skip the console by using Launch Rust here, which starts Rust through Steam and connects you.