Smelly Shaft
Offline 65.21.84.250:28015 checked 27d 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 29 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
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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 1 Oct, 23:28 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Smelly Shaft?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include Smelly Shaft: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it 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 Smelly Shaft mean?
These are the tags Smelly Shaft publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): It's on game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How does Smelly Shaft rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Smelly Shaft at #15,938, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Smelly Shaft right now?
Smelly Shaft went quiet 27 days 2 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
Server facts
Is Smelly Shaft online, and how reliable is it?
The server Smelly Shaft is not online now; 27 days 2 hours have passed since it was last seen. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 29 September 2026.
Where is Smelly Shaft located?
There is no region from Smelly Shaft. 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 65.21.84.250:28015.
Which Rust version is Smelly Shaft on?
On Linux, Smelly Shaft runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe days
What happens on Smelly Shaft 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 Smelly Shaft?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for Smelly Shaft, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 5 hours.
Map and rules
Which map does Smelly Shaft run?
The procedural map on Smelly Shaft measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1907403889. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Smelly Shaft?
The name of Smelly Shaft says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It appears under Community in the browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Join up
How do I join Smelly Shaft?
Enter client.connect 65.21.84.250:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.