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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 69% 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 8h. 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, 18:36 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.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Sunny Sandbox takes. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 15 hours have passed since this world was generated.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Sunny Sandbox fits: Rust build and creative servers: live list and Live Rust community servers. You will find it on the server list under Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so match that version to join; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set, which Sunny Sandbox publishes. 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.
0 of Sunny Sandbox's 50 slots are filled right now. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put Sunny Sandbox at #15,338, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Sunny Sandbox states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 5341635, generated by the game, runs on Sunny Sandbox. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
There is no region from Sunny Sandbox. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 217.177.242.22:28015 is its address.
The average server fps was 99 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 95. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 66,172 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,095 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux is what Sunny Sandbox runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Right now Sunny Sandbox is online. About 5 days 20 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 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 217.177.242.22:28015.