Live coverage · Rust server
Offline Cave Playtest is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 17d ago.
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 63% 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.
The current map
Monday 12 October 2026, 14:07 UTC
Wipe
Sunday 11 October 2026, 16:44 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 10 October 2026, 18:25 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 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Cave Playtest wipes with no fixed pattern, so there is nothing to predict. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, and no Rust server is spared it. This world dates from 17 days 14 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, Cave Playtest is listed under Live Rust community servers. Under the filters Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp8 (Max players): 8 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): This server runs game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code: that is the tag list Cave Playtest publishes for the game's server browser. 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.
Cave Playtest reads offline at the moment; the last sighting was 17 days 3 hours ago.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Cave Playtest is #13,821, placing it in the top 63% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Cave Playtest states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
No region is published by Cave Playtest. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. 195.252.230.124:28015 is its address.
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows is what Cave Playtest runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Cave Playtest is currently offline, with its last appearance 17 days 3 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 0% of the time. On 10 October 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 195.252.230.124:28015.