DST Sandbox Server
Online 66.51.97.53:28005 checked 12m 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 50% 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 22h. 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 3, 47 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:13 UTC FW27d ago | 3 | – | 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 DST Sandbox Server?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include DST Sandbox Server: Modded Rust servers, live and Build and creative servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on DST Sandbox Server mean?
For the server browser, DST Sandbox Server lists these tags: 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; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How does DST Sandbox Server rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #11,144 puts DST Sandbox Server in the top 50% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on DST Sandbox Server right now?
The current tally at DST Sandbox Server: 0 players across 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. Look at 13:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 0 players on average.
Server facts
Is DST Sandbox Server online, and how reliable is it?
DST Sandbox Server is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does DST Sandbox Server run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 5, with 5 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 208,505: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,057 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is DST Sandbox Server located?
There is no region from DST Sandbox Server. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.97.53:28005.
Which Rust version is DST Sandbox Server on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version DST Sandbox Server runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
The wipe schedule
What happens on DST Sandbox Server when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 3 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 47 hours after it began.
What is the wipe schedule on DST Sandbox Server?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for DST Sandbox Server, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 27 days. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Map and rules
Which map does DST Sandbox Server run?
Generated by the game with seed 343673, the map on DST Sandbox Server is procedural and 6,000 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on DST Sandbox Server?
The name of DST Sandbox Server says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Getting in
How do I join DST Sandbox Server?
Enter client.connect 66.51.97.53:28005 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.