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crabdance

Offline 83.9.161.61:28015 checked 22d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 5 slots 40% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#12,182top 54%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe22d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
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. 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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct6 Oct8 Oct9 Oct11 Oct12 Oct

Top 54% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include crabdance?

You'll find crabdance on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on crabdance mean?

For the server browser, crabdance lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): There are 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs166652 (Build): Game build: 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does crabdance rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #12,182 puts crabdance in the top 54% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on crabdance right now?

crabdance went quiet 22 days 9 hours ago and is offline at the moment.

Server facts

Is crabdance online, and how reliable is it?

crabdance shows as offline, last spotted 22 days 9 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 0%, with 0 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 5 October 2026.

Where is crabdance located?

There is no region from crabdance. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 83.9.161.61:28015.

Which Rust version is crabdance on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 is the version crabdance runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on crabdance?

crabdance's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 22 days 14 hours.

The rules

Which map does crabdance run?

The map on crabdance is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on crabdance?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on crabdance. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join crabdance?

Enter client.connect 83.9.161.61:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players There are 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs166652
Build Game build: 166652.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.