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Test server

Online 194.242.10.242:28215 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,270top 69%
Region–no continent published · group not published
Last wipe1574d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

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

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

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

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

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The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Test server?

You'll find Test server 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.

What do the server tags on Test server mean?

For the server browser, Test server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; v2348 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2348; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; h3de62e32 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags; stok (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Test server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,270 puts Test server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Test server right now?

0 players are on Test server at the moment, out of 100 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is Test server online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Test server is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 10 days 9 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Test server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 21, and it never went below 5. At its peak it held 3,427,084 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 56,091 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Test server located?

No region is published by Test server. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 194.242.10.242:28215.

Which Rust version is Test server on?

On Windows, Test server runs Rust network protocol 2348. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What is the wipe schedule on Test server?

Too few wipes are on record for Test server to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 1574 days 21 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Test server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on Test server is procedural and 4,500 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 Test server?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Test server. No group limit is published. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It appears under Community in the browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join Test server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 194.242.10.242:28215. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,v2348,h3de62e32,stok,gmrust

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
v2348
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2348.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.

Other

h3de62e32
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags.
stok
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags.

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.