Rust Player Count
63,928 playing now

Offline195.252.230.124:28015checked 1d ago

Cave Playtest

Players now 1/ 8 12% full
7-day average 1 peak 1
Rank #10,500 top 47%
Last wipe 2d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – no rhythm it keeps

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
15k10k15k20k10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct13 Oct14 Oct

Top 47% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Usual gap 0.9 days between real wipes
On rhythm 100% of its recent wipes
Wipe-day peak 1 players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 12 OctSun 11 OctSat 10 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 12 Oct, 14:07 UTC2d ago 1 – running 1
Sun 11 Oct, 16:44 UTC3d ago 1 – 0.9 days 0
Sat 10 Oct, 18:25 UTC4d ago 1 – 0.9 days 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.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 398 on average 354/ 450
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Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 329 on average 353/ 350
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 319 on average 293/ 350
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 296 on average 44/ 250
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

Which rules govern Cave Playtest?

No gather rate appears in the name of Cave Playtest. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Tags and filters

Where can Cave Playtest be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

The Rust Player Count lists that Cave Playtest fits are: 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; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.

What information do the tags on Cave Playtest convey?

For the game's server browser, Cave Playtest publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp8 (Max players): The server has 8 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): Build number: 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.

Player count

How many players does Cave Playtest have?

Cave Playtest is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 44 hours ago. With a peak of 1, the average over seven days is 1 players. The highest average in the last 48 hours was 1 players at 00:00 UTC.

What position does Cave Playtest hold among Rust servers?

For player hours in the last seven days, Cave Playtest ranks #10,500 and is in the top 47% of all ranked servers.

About the server

What is the uptime and reliability of Cave Playtest?

Last seen 44 hours ago, Cave Playtest is offline right now. In the last 3 full days, it was up for 5 of 72 hours, which is 7% uptime. 10 October 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What is the Rust version for Cave Playtest?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows is what Cave Playtest uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

Where can you find Cave Playtest?

No region is published by Cave Playtest. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. You can reach it at 195.252.230.124:28015.

Wipe information

What happens on Cave Playtest when a wipe occurs?

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

How often does Cave Playtest wipe?

Wipes on Cave Playtest come at irregular times, leaving no next wipe to forecast. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC it comes next. The present world dates from 2 days 7 hours ago.

Join the server

How can I connect to Cave Playtest?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 195.252.230.124:28015. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp8,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp8
Max players The server has 8 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167398
Build Build number: 167398.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

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.