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Sandkasten

Online 147.93.162.142:29215 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#7,589top 34%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe8d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75110:0019:0004:0013:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608010:0019:0004:0013:0022:0007:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 34% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 9h. The force wipe · high confidence

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 9hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:11 UTC FW26d 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Sandkasten?

You'll find Sandkasten on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Sandkasten mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Sandkasten: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does Sandkasten rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #7,589 puts Sandkasten in the top 34% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Sandkasten right now?

0 players are on Sandkasten at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Look at 14:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.

Server details

Is Sandkasten online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Sandkasten is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 days 12 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Sandkasten run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 57, with 11 as the lowest. At its peak it held 74,340 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 2,874 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Sandkasten located?

No region is published by Sandkasten. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 147.93.162.142:29215.

Which Rust version is Sandkasten on?

On Windows, Sandkasten runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on Sandkasten when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Sandkasten?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Sandkasten, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days 15 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Sandkasten run?

Generated by the game with seed 2064416874, the map on Sandkasten is procedural and 3,700 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Sandkasten?

No gather rate appears in the name of Sandkasten. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join Sandkasten?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 147.93.162.142:29215. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.