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Cave Build Server

Offline, with 1 of 8 players on; ranked #14,561 of every public Rust server, the top 61%. It last wiped 29d ago.

Filed under
Launch Rust and join
1/ 8 players now 12% full
07-day averagepeak –
#14,561ranktop 61%
29d agolast wipeno schedule published
–next wipeno wipe seen yet

The crowd

Players

Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.

No hourly history yet.

Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.

Under the hood

Server performance

Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k29 Sep30 Sep2 Oct3 Oct5 Oct6 Oct

Note: Top 61% 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.

WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

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The short version

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Wipe schedule

On what schedule does Cave Build Server wipe?

Its rhythm cannot be read yet: Cave Build Server has too few wipes on record. A force wipe falls on every Rust server once a month, and the next one is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 29 days 21 hours have passed since its current world was created.

Server

On what version does Cave Build Server currently run?

Running on Windows, Cave Build Server is on Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliable is Cave Build Server, and is it up at the moment?

The last sighting of Cave Build Server was 29 days 21 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 29 September 2026.

What location is listed for Cave Build Server?

A region is not published by Cave Build Server. The location shown on Rust Insights is the one a server states, not a lookup of where the machine sits. Connect through 77.98.71.53:28015.

Server tags

What is meant by each tag on Cave Build Server?

The tags gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp8 (Max players): 8 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: 8 per team at most; v2633 (Protocol): Matching versions are required, and the protocol is 2633; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set are what Cave Build Server publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. The tags also hold the current player count, the queue and when the world was created, all of which appear at the top of this page.

Which Rust Insights filters and lists feature Cave Build Server?

Cave Build Server appears among the following Rust Insights lists: Best Rust community servers and Rust build and creative 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 Cave Build Server look like?

The last time Cave Build Server was seen online was 29 days 21 hours ago, and it is offline now.

How does Cave Build Server compare with other Rust servers in the ranking?

On player hours for the last seven days, Cave Build Server sits at #14,561, inside the top 61% of ranked servers.

Settings and rules

How is Cave Build Server configured, and what rules apply?

Nothing about gather rate is given in the name of Cave Build Server. Groups can reach 8 players, which is the default in the game. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. The server has Valve's VAC anti-cheat switched on.

What is the map on Cave Build Server?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is what Cave Build Server runs.

How to join

How can you get onto Cave Build Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 77.98.71.53:28015. You can skip the console by using Launch Rust here, which starts Rust through Steam and connects you.

The small print

Server tags

What each one means.

Published as mp8,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard Rust plays.
mp8
Max players 8 slots in total.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: 8 per team at most.
v2633
Protocol Matching versions are required, and the protocol is 2633.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Note: Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.