Stephen's Playground
Offline 15.218.111.176:28015 checked 18d 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 62% 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 Stephen's Playground?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Stephen's Playground: Community servers, by the numbers. It appears under these filters 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 Stephen's Playground mean?
For the server browser, Stephen's Playground lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp10 (Max players): There are 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs167398 (Build): It's on game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $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.
The players
How does Stephen's Playground rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #13,631 puts Stephen's Playground in the top 62% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Stephen's Playground right now?
Stephen's Playground went quiet 18 days 14 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
Server facts
Is Stephen's Playground online, and how reliable is it?
Down at the moment: Stephen's Playground was last seen 18 days 14 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 10 October 2026.
Where is Stephen's Playground located?
No region is published by Stephen's Playground. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 15.218.111.176:28015.
Which Rust version is Stephen's Playground on?
On Windows, Stephen's Playground runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What is the wipe schedule on Stephen's Playground?
Too few wipes are on record for Stephen's Playground 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 18 days 14 hours.
The rules
Which map does Stephen's Playground run?
The map on Stephen's Playground is procedural, made by the game.
What are the rules and settings on Stephen's Playground?
No gather rate appears in the name of Stephen's Playground. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Join up
How do I join Stephen's Playground?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 15.218.111.176:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.