Offline46.138.15.179:28015checked 28d ago
snowball
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestWipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageSettings and map
Which rules govern snowball?
No gather rate appears in the name of snowball. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. survival is the game mode, 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.
Which map is running on snowball?
A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on snowball.
Tags and filters
Where can snowball be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that snowball 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.
What is the meaning of the tags on snowball?
The game's server browser reads these tags from snowball: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp1 (Max players): 1 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs163794 (Build): Build number: 163794; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How full is snowball?
snowball is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 28 days 5 hours ago.
How does snowball compare in server rankings?
snowball is in the top – of all ranked servers with a rank of #13,361 for player hours over the past seven days.
About the server
How reliable is snowball, and is it online?
Last seen 28 days 5 hours ago, snowball is offline right now. For the last 7 full days, it was online for 0 of 168 hours, a 0% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is used on snowball?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794 on Windows is what snowball uses. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.
Where can you find snowball?
No region is published by snowball. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. You can reach it at 46.138.15.179:28015.
Wipe days
When does snowball wipe?
With so few of snowball's wipes on record, its rhythm remains unclear. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe applies to all Rust servers. The world in play was created 38 days 15 hours ago.
How to join
What is the process to join snowball?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 46.138.15.179:28015. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp1
ts8
v2633
cs163794
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.