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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 28 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 66% 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 1, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:33 UTC FW
Wipe
Wednesday 30 September 2026, 22:10 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 30 September 2026, 08:41 UTC
Wipe
Monday 28 September 2026, 21:11 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. Peak population on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
The Dragon's Den wipes with no fixed pattern, so there is nothing to predict. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. The world you are playing on was built 27 days 4 hours.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists The Dragon's Den fits: Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp20 (Max players): The slot count is 20; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded: that is the tag list The Dragon's Den publishes for the game's server browser. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
0 of The Dragon's Den's 20 slots are filled right now. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 1.
On player hours for the past seven days, The Dragon's Den sits at #14,682, inside the top 66% of ranked servers.
The name The Dragon's Den carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the mode, with 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.
The Dragon's Den runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,000, seed 5. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page. For the map name it lists Custom Map.
Nothing on The Dragon's Den states a region. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 157.85.92.23:29299.
The average server fps was 109 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 87. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 91,394 entities. The highest memory usage was 4,562 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dragon's Den runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
The Dragon's Den is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 28 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 157.85.92.23:29299 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.