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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 26 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
no rhythm it keeps
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 25 hours in.
The current map
Friday 2 October 2026, 23:11 UTC
Wipe
Monday 28 September 2026, 22:32 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 26 September 2026, 22:52 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 25 hours in. In 50% of recent wipes, population held above half the peak right through to the next wipe. In the other cases it dropped under half by day 3.
No next wipe can be predicted for Ding Dong's Playground, which wipes at irregular times. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. This world dates from 26 days 12 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, Ding Dong's Playground is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
These are the tags Ding Dong's Playground makes public: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): The slot count is 40; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game. 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.
Ding Dong's Playground is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 40 slots in total. Peak over the past week: 2. Average: 0 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 17:00 UTC drew the most players, 2 on average.
Player hours over seven days put Ding Dong's Playground at #5,639, in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
The name Ding Dong's Playground carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Ding Dong's Playground runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,000, seed 1614537442. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
Nothing on Ding Dong's Playground 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 135.148.252.154:24690.
Server fps averaged 188 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 135. It supported up to 52,958 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 3,448 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on Ding Dong's Playground is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Ding Dong's Playground is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 26 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 135.148.252.154:24690.