The Nest
Offline 208.52.152.46:28013 checked 9d 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 70% 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.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 15 Oct, 05:17 UTC13d ago | 0 | – | running | 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 The Nest?
You'll find The Nest on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 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 The Nest mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from The Nest: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): There are 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^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.
Population
How does The Nest rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,275 puts The Nest in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on The Nest right now?
Offline now, The Nest was last spotted 9 days 20 hours ago.
Server details
Is The Nest online, and how reliable is it?
The server The Nest is not online now; 9 days 20 hours have passed since it was last seen. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 0%, with 0 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Where is The Nest located?
No region is published by The Nest. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 208.52.152.46:28013.
Which Rust version is The Nest on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version The Nest runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on The Nest when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began.
What is the wipe schedule on The Nest?
Too few wipes are on record for The Nest 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. 13 days 4 hours is when the present world was made.
The rules
Which map does The Nest run?
The procedural map on The Nest measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 2064062542. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on The Nest?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Nest. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Join up
How do I join The Nest?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 208.52.152.46:28013. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.