Server profile
Balls
Offline, with 0 of 2 players on; ranked #15,903 of every public Rust server, the top 72%. It last wiped 26d ago.
Offline 193.228.206.153:28015 checked 21d 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 72% 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
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 schedule
How often does Balls wipe, and on which day?
Too few wipes are on record for Balls to reveal a rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, every Rust server, this one included, takes the monthly force wipe. The world you are playing on now was made 26 days 13 hours ago.
Server
Which Rust version is Balls on?
Running on Windows, Balls is on Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. You can only join if your game is on the same protocol; Steam handles that update.
How reliable is Balls, and is it up at the moment?
Balls is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 21 days 17 hours ago. 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 7 October 2026.
What location is listed for Balls?
No region is published by Balls. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. 193.228.206.153:28015 is where it answers.
Server tags
What is meant by each tag on Balls?
The tags gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp2 (Max players): It holds 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2634; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, placing it under Modded are what Balls publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. You will find the present player count, the queue and the world's creation time among the tags, and they are displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Insights filters and lists feature Balls?
Balls appears among the following Rust Insights lists: Modded Rust servers, explained. You will find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Population
How many players are on Balls right now, and how does that number move?
Balls is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 21 days 17 hours ago.
Where does Balls sit in the rankings?
The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts Balls at #15,903, among the top 72% of all ranked servers.
Map and rules
How is Balls configured, and what rules apply?
No gather rate appears in the name of Balls. No group limit is set, so the game's default of 8 players applies. You get survival as the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. PvP and raiding are both enabled. Plugins or settings change the game, so it sits under Modded in the browser. It runs plugins, Oxide of them. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is active.
Which map is live on Balls?
The game generates the map on Balls, which is procedural.
How to join
What is the way to join Balls?
Type client.connect 193.228.206.153:28015 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.