Server profile
THETESTER
Offline, with 0 of 500 players on; ranked #15,205 of every public Rust server, the top 70%. It last wiped 14d ago.
Offline 172.171.7.64:28015 checked 14d 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. 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
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly 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
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The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
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- Rusty Moose |EU Main|59/250
- Rustoria.co - EU Main36/250
- Rustafied.com - EU Friday138/200
- Rustoria.co - EU East Medium255/300
The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe days
When does THETESTER wipe, and how often?
Too few wipes are on record for THETESTER to reveal a rhythm. The monthly force wipe comes to all Rust servers next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are playing on now was made 14 days 10 hours ago.
Server
On what version does THETESTER currently run?
The Rust build is network protocol 2634 and build 167781, running on Windows, for THETESTER. Joining needs your game on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.
How reliable is THETESTER, and is it up at the moment?
Offline at the moment, THETESTER was last seen 14 days 10 hours ago. The last 7 full days gave 0 of 168 hours up, or 0% of the time. On 14 October 2026 is when Rust Insights first saw it.
In which location does THETESTER sit?
A region is not published by THETESTER. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. 172.171.7.64:28015 is where it answers.
Tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on THETESTER?
These tags come from THETESTER and are read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams cap at 8; v2634 (Protocol): To join you need the same version; protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): Build 167781 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set. Current players, queue length and the age of the world sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Where does THETESTER turn up among the Rust Insights lists and filters?
These Rust Insights lists include THETESTER: Best Rust community servers. On the server list, the filters that surface it are Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Population history
What does the population of THETESTER look like?
THETESTER is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 14 days 10 hours ago.
How does THETESTER compare with other Rust servers in the ranking?
Player hours over seven days put THETESTER at #15,205, within the top 70% of the ranked field.
Map and rules
What are the settings and rules for THETESTER?
Nothing about gather rate is given in the name of THETESTER. Groups can reach 8 players, which is the default in the game. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. PvP and raiding are both enabled. The server browser lists it under Community. The server has Valve's VAC anti-cheat switched off.
Connecting
What is the way to join THETESTER?
Type client.connect 172.171.7.64:28015 into the console, which you open with F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job by opening Rust through Steam.