Rust Player Count
43,798 playing now

Offline65.21.84.250:28015checked 11d ago

Smelly Shaft

Players now 0/ 100 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,938 top 69%
Last wipe 12d ago no schedule published
Next wipe 22d 17h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

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, measured since 29 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k29 Sep1 Oct3 Oct5 Oct7 Oct9 Oct

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

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 17h. The force wipe · high confidence

Wipe-day peak 0 players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

22d 17hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 23:28 UTC FW12d 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 wipes
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Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 341 on average 419/ 450
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 336 on average 137/ 200
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average 30/ 250
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

Which rules govern Smelly Shaft?

The name of Smelly Shaft does not state a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. 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. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

What map is used on Smelly Shaft?

A procedural map of size 4,500 is what Smelly Shaft runs, generated by the game with seed 1907403889. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.

Tags, lists and filters

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

The Rust Player Count lists that Smelly Shaft 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.

How should you interpret the tags on Smelly Shaft?

The game's server browser reads these tags from Smelly Shaft: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp100 (Max players): Capacity: 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): Build number: 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.

Player numbers

How many players does Smelly Shaft have?

Smelly Shaft is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 11 days 22 hours ago.

What position does Smelly Shaft hold among Rust servers?

Smelly Shaft is in the top 69% of all ranked servers with a rank of #15,938 for player hours over the past seven days.

Server details

How reliable is Smelly Shaft, and is it online?

Currently offline, Smelly Shaft was last seen 11 days 22 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 0 of 168 hours, which is 0% uptime. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 29 September 2026.

What is the Rust version for Smelly Shaft?

On Linux, Smelly Shaft runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What region does Smelly Shaft serve?

A region is not published by Smelly Shaft. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. It is located at 65.21.84.250:28015.

Wipe information

What should you expect on Smelly Shaft during a wipe?

The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What wipe pattern does Smelly Shaft follow?

Wipes happen once a month on Smelly Shaft, along with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and it affects all Rust servers. The world in play was created 12 days 2 hours ago.

Join the server

How can I connect to Smelly Shaft?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 65.21.84.250:28015. 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 mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp100
Max players Capacity: 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166494
Build Build number: 166494.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.