Nudel's Test Server
Offline EU 152.53.255.12:28015 checked 16d 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 9 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 71% of all ranked servers, top 88% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 14h. The 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.
Tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Nudel's Test Server?
You'll find Nudel's Test Server on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: European Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Nudel's Test Server mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from Nudel's Test Server: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How does Nudel's Test Server rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Nudel's Test Server sits at #15,781, inside the top 71% of ranked servers and at #2,566 in Europe.
How many players are on Nudel's Test Server right now?
Nudel's Test Server went quiet 16 days 13 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
About the server
Is Nudel's Test Server online, and how reliable is it?
Nudel's Test Server shows as offline, last spotted 16 days 13 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 9 October 2026.
Where is Nudel's Test Server located?
In Europe, Nudel's Test Server lists itself with its EU tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 152.53.255.12:28015.
Which Rust version is Nudel's Test Server on?
On Linux, Nudel's Test Server 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 Nudel's Test Server?
From the force wipe comes the estimate for Nudel's Test Server's next wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 18 days 12 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
Map and rules
Which map does Nudel's Test Server run?
A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 6861 is what Nudel's Test Server runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on Nudel's Test Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of Nudel's Test Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Getting in
How do I join Nudel's Test Server?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 152.53.255.12:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.