BlackSheep
Offline 135.148.15.130:28942 checked 1d ago
Vital stats
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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
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
| 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 wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include BlackSheep?
You'll find BlackSheep on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. 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.
What do the server tags on BlackSheep mean?
These are the tags BlackSheep publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp5 (Max players): It has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Population
How does BlackSheep rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last week rank BlackSheep at #15,327, within the top 69% of ranked servers.
How many players are on BlackSheep right now?
BlackSheep went quiet 38 hours ago and is offline at the moment. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
Server details
Is BlackSheep online, and how reliable is it?
BlackSheep shows as offline, last spotted 38 hours ago. About 40 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 88% of the time over the last 7 full days, 147 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 3 October 2026.
Does BlackSheep run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 219, and it never went below 204. At its peak it held 29,587 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 2,993 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is BlackSheep located?
There is no region from BlackSheep. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 135.148.15.130:28942.
Which Rust version is BlackSheep on?
On Linux, BlackSheep runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
The wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on BlackSheep?
Too few wipes are on record for BlackSheep to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 25 days 23 hours.
Rules and settings
Which map does BlackSheep run?
The procedural map on BlackSheep measures 2,500 and comes from the game with seed 4372203. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on BlackSheep?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on BlackSheep. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
How to join
How do I join BlackSheep?
Enter client.connect 135.148.15.130:28942 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.