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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 23% 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 3, 8 hours in.
The current map
Saturday 24 October 2026, 15:04 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 17 October 2026, 16:51 UTC
Wipe
Friday 16 October 2026, 20:54 UTC
Wipe
Sunday 4 October 2026, 15:36 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:45 UTC FW
Wipe
Tuesday 29 September 2026, 19:21 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 19 September 2026, 18:57 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. 8 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. In 0% 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 1.
Wipes on The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing come at irregular times, and no next date can be given. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it. This world dates from 5 days 9 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; 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): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded, which The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing 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.
0 of The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing's 40 slots are filled right now. Peak over the past week: 3. Average: 0 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 23:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing at #5,117, in the top 23% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing states a gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. The plugin load is Oxide. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1337, generated by the game, runs on The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page. Map name, as listed: Custom Map.
There is no region from The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. You can reach it at 172.240.123.100:25602.
Server fps averaged 62 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 35. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 151,610 entities. The highest memory usage was 4,699 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, The Playground | Experimental Mods & Testing is live. About 19 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 143 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 85% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 172.240.123.100:25602 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://mrga.craftingstore.net/.
