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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 35% 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 7d 17h. 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, 18:11 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. Peak population on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
Nothing wipes Sandkasten but the force wipe, once a month. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. The world you are playing on was built 27 days 7 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, Sandkasten is listed under Live Rust community servers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. Under the filters Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
The server browser reads gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^v (Vanilla): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships, which Sandkasten publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Sandkasten, out of 50 slots. Peak over the past week: 1. Average: 0 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 17:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, Sandkasten sits at #7,863, inside the top 35% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Sandkasten states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. You find it under Community in the server browser. Vanilla is its own label: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 3,700 with seed 2064416874, generated by the game, runs on Sandkasten. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
No region is published by Sandkasten. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. 147.93.162.142:29215 is its address.
The average server fps was 59 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 21. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 74,340 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,890 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Sandkasten operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Sandkasten is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 days 5 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 147.93.162.142:29215 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.
