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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 50% 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 19h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 47 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 20:13 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 3 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 47 hours in.
Once a month is all DST Sandbox Server wipes, together with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 3 hours have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include DST Sandbox Server are Modded Rust servers live now and Rust build and creative servers: live list. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
These are the tags DST Sandbox Server makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game. 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 DST Sandbox Server's 50 slots are filled right now. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 1. Peak hour over 48 hours: 13:00 UTC, at 0 players on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, DST Sandbox Server is #11,132, placing it in the top 50% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of DST Sandbox Server states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, 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.
DST Sandbox Server runs a game-generated procedural map: size 6,000, seed 343673. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Nothing on DST Sandbox Server states a region. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 66.51.97.53:28005 is its address.
The average server fps was 5 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 208,505 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,935 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 DST Sandbox Server runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
DST Sandbox Server is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 19 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 66.51.97.53:28005 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
