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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 68% 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 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
The current map
Tuesday 20 October 2026, 22:10 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 14 October 2026, 21:44 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 26 September 2026, 13:03 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 21:31 UTC
Wipe
Tuesday 15 September 2026, 00:48 UTC
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 1 when it did not hold.
Nothing wipes DF Test Server but the force wipe, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are playing on was built 8 days 22 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
On Rust Live Stats, DF Test Server is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): You need protocol 2634 on your game to get in; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded: that is the tag list DF Test Server publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on DF Test Server, out of 50 slots. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put DF Test Server at #15,269, in the top 68% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of DF Test Server states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 4,096, seed 2138400164: that is the procedural map the game generates for DF Test Server. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page. For the map name it lists Custom Map.
No region is published by DF Test Server. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 104.238.229.179:30015.
It never went below 30 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 30. Entity count reached 70,522: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 4,054 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what DF Test Server runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, DF Test Server is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 days 20 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 104.238.229.179:30015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.