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Steam Sauna

Online 172.105.255.193:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 20 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,269top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe7d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123403:0012:0022:0007:0016:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020003:0012:0022:0007:0016:0001:00

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 Sep24 Sep29 Sep3 Oct26 Oct30 Oct

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

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

26.7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctFri 25 Sep
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 22 Oct, 15:30 UTC7d ago 0 – running 0
Fri 25 Sep, 21:45 UTC34d ago 0 – 26.7 days 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.

Server tags

Who runs Steam Sauna?

A sheepirc.com hostname is published by Steam Sauna. We track no other server using it.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Steam Sauna?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Steam Sauna: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Steam Sauna mean?

For the server browser, Steam Sauna lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp20 (Max players): Slots: 20; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Steam Sauna rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,269 puts Steam Sauna in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Steam Sauna right now?

0 players are on Steam Sauna at the moment, out of 20 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server facts

Is Steam Sauna online, and how reliable is it?

Steam Sauna is live at the moment. About 5 days 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Steam Sauna run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 94, and it never went below 39. The world carried as many as 114,306 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,461 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Steam Sauna located?

No region is published by Steam Sauna. 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 172.105.255.193:28015.

Which Rust version is Steam Sauna on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 is the version Steam Sauna runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Steam Sauna when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Steam Sauna?

Steam Sauna's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. The world it is running now dates from 7 days 11 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Steam Sauna run?

The procedural map on Steam Sauna measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 309324704. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Steam Sauna?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Steam Sauna. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join Steam Sauna?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 172.105.255.193:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp20
Max players Slots: 20.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.