Golden Hour Test Server
Offline NA 81.166.61.213:28015 checked 1d 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 35% of all ranked servers, top 62% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 4h. 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 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 13 Oct, 20:38 UTC15d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 12 Oct, 17:58 UTC16d ago | 1 | – | 1.1 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:22 UTC FW27d ago | 1 | halved by day 4 | 10.9 days | 1 |
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 Golden Hour Test Server?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include Golden Hour Test Server: Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks.
What do the server tags on Golden Hour Test Server mean?
These are the tags Golden Hour Test Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts6 (Group limit): No team can exceed 6 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^b (Biweekly): Every two weeks it wipes; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. 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 Golden Hour Test Server rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Golden Hour Test Server sits at #7,869, inside the top 35% of ranked servers and at #1,156 in North America.
How many players are on Golden Hour Test Server right now?
Golden Hour Test Server went quiet 39 hours ago and is offline at the moment. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Look at 23:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.
Server facts
Is Golden Hour Test Server online, and how reliable is it?
Down at the moment: Golden Hour Test Server was last seen 39 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 17%, with 29 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 18 September 2026.
Where is Golden Hour Test Server located?
With its NA tag, Golden Hour Test Server lists itself in North America. 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 81.166.61.213:28015.
Which Rust version is Golden Hour Test Server on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Golden Hour Test Server runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What happens on Golden Hour Test Server when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 4.
What is the wipe schedule on Golden Hour Test Server?
Too few wipes are recorded on Golden Hour Test Server to confirm its schedule, so its tag drives the prediction. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 20 hours. The tags list a fortnightly wipe schedule.
The rules
Which map does Golden Hour Test Server run?
The map on Golden Hour Test Server is procedural, made by the game.
What are the rules and settings on Golden Hour Test Server?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Golden Hour Test Server. A group holds at most 6 players. no fighting other players: that is the pve mode. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. The server's own word for it is vanilla: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Join up
How do I join Golden Hour Test Server?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 81.166.61.213:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.