Rust Player Count
85,138 playing now

Offline104.28.197.253:28015checked 16d ago

Evolution Staging Server

Players now 1/ 1 100% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,581 top 65%
Last wipe 16d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – too few wipes seen yet

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

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

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.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k28 Sep29 Sep1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct

Top 65% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Wipe-day peak 1 players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 28 Sep, 01:41 UTC16d ago 1 – running 0

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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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does Evolution Staging Server use?

No gather rate appears in the name of Evolution Staging Server. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What is the map on Evolution Staging Server?

A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on Evolution Staging Server.

Tags and filters

Where can Evolution Staging Server be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include Evolution Staging Server: Best Rust PvE servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

What is the meaning of the tags on Evolution Staging Server?

The game's server browser reads these tags from Evolution Staging Server: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in its vanilla form; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs165978 (Build): The game build is 165978; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Player numbers

How many players does Evolution Staging Server have?

Evolution Staging Server is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 16 days 15 hours ago.

Where does Evolution Staging Server sit in the rankings?

Over the last seven days, Evolution Staging Server is #15,581 for player hours, placing it in the top 65% of ranked servers.

About the server

What is the online status and reliability of Evolution Staging Server?

Currently offline, Evolution Staging Server was last seen 16 days 15 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 0 of 168 hours, which is 0% uptime. 28 September 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What Rust version is used on Evolution Staging Server?

Windows hosts Evolution Staging Server, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 165978. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What region does Evolution Staging Server serve?

There is no region published by Evolution Staging Server. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. It is located at 104.28.197.253:28015.

Wipe schedule

What should you expect on Evolution Staging Server during a wipe?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 1 players. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest.

What wipe pattern does Evolution Staging Server follow?

The rhythm of wipes on Evolution Staging Server cannot be told yet, since too few are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next monthly force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server. The world in play was created 16 days 15 hours ago.

Connect to the server

What is the process to join Evolution Staging Server?

Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 104.28.197.253:28015. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs165978,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in its vanilla form.
mp1
Max players The server has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol: 2634.
cs165978
Build The game build is 165978.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it.
$r?
Region code A region code is not present.

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.