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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:17 UTC FW
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Testing Grounds takes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 28 days 5 hours have passed since this world was generated.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Testing Grounds fits: Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp20 (Max players): Slots: 20; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon: that is the tag list Testing Grounds publishes for the game's server browser. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Testing Grounds, out of 20 slots. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Testing Grounds is #15,290, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name Testing Grounds. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin load is Carbon. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Testing Grounds runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,500, seed 578369846. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
Nothing on Testing Grounds states a region. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 104.129.132.215:28039.
It never went below 5 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 5. It supported up to 75,099 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 2,412 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Testing Grounds runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, Testing Grounds is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 104.129.132.215:28039.