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Sunny Sandbox

Online 217.177.242.22:28015 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,349top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

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 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

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

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

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 1 Oct, 18:36 UTC FW27d 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Sunny Sandbox?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Sunny Sandbox: Build and creative servers, live and 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; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Sunny Sandbox mean?

These are the tags Sunny Sandbox publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Sunny Sandbox rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Sunny Sandbox at #15,349, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Sunny Sandbox right now?

The current tally at Sunny Sandbox: 0 players across 50 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

About the server

Is Sunny Sandbox online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Sunny Sandbox is online. About 5 days 15 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Sunny Sandbox run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 99, with 95 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 66,172: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,095 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Sunny Sandbox located?

There is no region from Sunny Sandbox. 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 217.177.242.22:28015.

Which Rust version is Sunny Sandbox on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 is the version Sunny Sandbox runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on Sunny Sandbox when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Sunny Sandbox?

Sunny Sandbox wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 27 days 10 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Sunny Sandbox run?

Generated by the game with seed 5341635, the map on Sunny Sandbox is procedural and 3,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Sunny Sandbox?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Sunny Sandbox. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join Sunny Sandbox?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 217.177.242.22:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634.
cs166494
Build The game build is 166494.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.