Build Contest
Online 64.20.40.98:27058 checked 7m 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 69% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 22:02 UTC26d 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.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Build Contest?
You'll find Build Contest on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live and Rust creative servers, watched. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on Build Contest mean?
These are the tags Build Contest publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): There are 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^c (Creative): No gathering needed: sandbox building, build whatever you like; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^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 Build Contest rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Build Contest at #15,349, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Build Contest right now?
The current tally at Build Contest: 0 players across 40 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
Server details
Is Build Contest online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Build Contest is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 1 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 86%, with 144 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Does Build Contest run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 40 server fps, with a low of 40. At its peak it held 66,163 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 2,207 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is Build Contest located?
There is no region from Build Contest. 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 64.20.40.98:27058.
Which Rust version is Build Contest on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Build Contest runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on Build Contest when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on Build Contest?
The record of Build Contest's wipes is still too thin to show 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. 26 days 2 hours is when the present world was made.
Rules and settings
Which map does Build Contest run?
Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on Build Contest is procedural and 3,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.
What are the rules and settings on Build Contest?
No gather rate appears in the name of Build Contest. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. build & creative is the game mode, building in a sandbox, with no gathering. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
How to join
How do I join Build Contest?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 64.20.40.98:27058. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/Yk2bBhmVwP.