LiveLive coverage · NA
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 57% of all ranked servers, top 74% in NA. 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 6h. The force wipe · high confidence
The current map
Wednesday 28 October 2026, 21:44 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.
Nothing wipes Testing Dumb Things 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. 10 hours have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Testing Dumb Things are Modded Rust servers live now and North America Rust servers, live. Under the filters Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours it appears on the server list.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; 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): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded; NA (North America): North America is the browser listing for this server, which Testing Dumb Things 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 Testing Dumb Things's 50 slots are filled right now. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 1. Between now and 48 hours back, 01:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
Seven-day player hours place Testing Dumb Things at #12,601 overall, in the top 57% of ranked servers and #1,380 in North America.
No gather rate appears in the name Testing Dumb Things. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 1337, generated by the game, runs on Testing Dumb Things. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. Map name, as listed: Custom Map.
The NA tag on Testing Dumb Things lists it in North America. 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 66.51.96.89:28000.
Server fps averaged 9 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 21,917 entities. Up to 1,210 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The setup on Testing Dumb Things is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Testing Dumb Things is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 9 hours ago. It was online for 2 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 1% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 66.51.96.89:28000 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.