Rust Player Count
34,531 playing now

Offline20.29.188.146:28015checked 11d ago

THETESTER

Players now 0/ 500 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,917 top 69%
Last wipe 11d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – no wipe 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
15k10k15k20k2 Oct3 Oct5 Oct6 Oct8 Oct9 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

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

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 · 408 on average 169/ 225
Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 356 on average 124/ 200
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 337 on average 238/ 275
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 334 on average 99/ 200
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average 13/ 250
Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 282 on average 98/ 100

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

Which rules govern THETESTER?

No gather rate appears in the name of THETESTER. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is off.

Tags, lists and filters

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

The Rust Player Count lists that THETESTER 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 2 weeks.

What is the meaning of the tags on THETESTER?

The game's server browser reads these tags from THETESTER: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs166586 (Build): It runs on game build 166586; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $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 numbers

What is the player count on THETESTER?

Currently offline, THETESTER was last seen 11 days 22 hours ago.

How does THETESTER compare in server rankings?

THETESTER is in the top 69% of all ranked servers with a rank of #15,917 for player hours over the past seven days.

Server information

How reliable is THETESTER, and is it online?

THETESTER is down at the moment and was last seen 11 days 22 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours. 2 October 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What Rust version is used on THETESTER?

On Windows, THETESTER runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

Where can you find THETESTER?

There is no region published by THETESTER. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 20.29.188.146:28015.

Wipe schedule

How often does THETESTER wipe?

With so few of THETESTER's wipes on record, its rhythm remains unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC it comes next. The world in play was created 11 days 22 hours ago.

Join the server

What is the process to join THETESTER?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 20.29.188.146:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp500
Max players 500 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default team cap: 8 players.
v2634
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol: 2634.
cs166586
Build It runs on game build 166586.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the game's default networking.
$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.