Drift Staging
Online 203.16.163.8:27387 checked 14m 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 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 66% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 14 Oct, 15:15 UTC15d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Tue 13 Oct, 17:17 UTC16d ago | 5 | – | 0.9 days | 0 |
| Mon 12 Oct, 20:37 UTC17d ago | 5 | – | 0.9 days | 0 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 14:21 UTC24d ago | 2 | halved by day 1 | 7.3 days | 0 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 15:18 UTC25d ago | 2 | – | 1 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.
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 Drift Staging?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Drift Staging: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on Drift Staging mean?
For the server browser, Drift Staging lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): There are 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^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. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Drift Staging rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #14,782 puts Drift Staging in the top 66% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Drift Staging right now?
Drift Staging is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.
Server facts
Is Drift Staging online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Drift Staging is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 85%, with 143 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 4 October 2026.
Does Drift Staging run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 174, and it never went below 108. At its peak it held 24,268 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 3,701 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is Drift Staging located?
There is no region from Drift Staging. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 203.16.163.8:27387.
Which Rust version is Drift Staging on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Drift Staging runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
The wipe schedule
What happens on Drift Staging when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 4 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on Drift Staging?
There is no next wipe to predict on Drift Staging, because wipes come at irregular times. 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 15 days 7 hours.
The rules
Which map does Drift Staging run?
Generated by the game with seed 50000, the map on Drift Staging is procedural and 3,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. Custom Map is how the map name reads.
What are the rules and settings on Drift Staging?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Drift Staging. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Getting in
How do I join Drift Staging?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 203.16.163.8:27387. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.