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[NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server

Offline 5.186.77.105:28025 checked 10d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 50 slots 4% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#11,497top 53%
Region–no continent published · group 20 max
Last wipe10d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 19hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k17 Oct18 Oct20 Oct21 Oct23 Oct24 Oct

Top 53% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 19h. The 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 interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server: European Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and The roleplay set, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts20 (Group limit): Teams cap at 20 players; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^r (Roleplay): This is a roleplay server; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server at #11,497, in the top 53% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server right now?

Offline now, [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server was last spotted 10 days 3 hours ago.

Server facts

Is [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server online, and how reliable is it?

Down at the moment: [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server was last seen 10 days 3 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 0, a 0% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 17 October 2026.

Where is [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server located?

No region tag comes from [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server, but its name points to Europe. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 5.186.77.105:28025.

Which Rust version is [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server on?

On Linux, [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What is the wipe schedule on [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server?

From the force wipe comes the estimate for [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server's next wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 10 days 6 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 455953702 is what [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server. Teams can reach 20 players. roleplay is the game mode, roleplay rules across towns and jobs. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join [NORDIC]Northern Lights Testing Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 5.186.77.105:28025. 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,^m,^r,^p,gmrust,cs167781,ts20,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts20
Group limit Teams cap at 20 players.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^r
Roleplay This is a roleplay server.
^p
PvE Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.