Online216.138.10.158:28015checked 12m ago
BEST_BUDS
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 72% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 08:19 UTC12d ago | 0 | – | 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
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What configuration does BEST_BUDS use?
No gather rate appears in the name of BEST_BUDS. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
What map is used on BEST_BUDS?
The game generates a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1337 for BEST_BUDS. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.
Server tags
Where can BEST_BUDS be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that BEST_BUDS fits are: Best Rust PvE servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
How should you interpret the tags on BEST_BUDS?
These are the tags BEST_BUDS publishes for the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp50 (Max players): Capacity: 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166586 (Build): Build number: 166586; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How many players does BEST_BUDS have?
With 50 slots, BEST_BUDS has 0 players at the moment. For the past week, the average number of players was 0.
Where does BEST_BUDS sit in the rankings?
BEST_BUDS is in the top 72% of all ranked servers with a rank of #15,909 for player hours over the past seven days.
About the server
What is the online status and reliability of BEST_BUDS?
BEST_BUDS is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 days 5 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for BEST_BUDS?
On Linux, BEST_BUDS 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.
What region does BEST_BUDS serve?
No region is published by BEST_BUDS. 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 216.138.10.158:28015.
What is the performance like on BEST_BUDS?
The server ran at an average of 60 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 41. The maximum number of entities it carried was 120,608, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. Peak memory use was 5,723 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe days
What changes on BEST_BUDS on wipe day?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 0 players. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest.
When does BEST_BUDS wipe?
The rhythm of wipes on BEST_BUDS 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 present world dates from 12 days 7 hours ago.
How to join
How can I connect to BEST_BUDS?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 216.138.10.158:28015. 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 meansPublished as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs166586
ptrak
$r?
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.