Testing Grounds
104.129.132.215:28039 checked 10m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 72% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 21d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:17 UTC FW13d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
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.
Similar servers
Quick answers
Map and rules
Which settings and rules apply on Testing Grounds?
No gather rate appears in the name Testing Grounds. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the regular game. You can fight and raid other players here. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. It runs plugins: Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, from Valve.
What is the map on Testing Grounds?
Size 3,500, seed 578369846, generated by the game: the procedural map on Testing Grounds. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Player count
How full is Testing Grounds?
The server Testing Grounds is currently at 0 players out of 20 slots. Its seven-day average stands at 0 players.
What is Testing Grounds's ranking?
In the top 72% of ranked servers, Testing Grounds holds #15,900 for player hours over the last seven days.
Lists and tags
What is the meaning of the tags on Testing Grounds?
For the game's server browser, Testing Grounds publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp20 (Max players): The server has 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the standard team limit of 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs167781 (Build): It runs build 167781; ptrak (Networking): Standard RakNet networking is in use here; $r? (Region code): Region code left unset; ^z (Modded): The Modded listing means plugins or settings have changed the game; ^y (Carbon): Carbon plugin framework is running. Also in the tags: its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Zerg Life filters and lists cover Testing Grounds?
Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs: that is where you will find Testing Grounds among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
About the server
What is the uptime and reliability of Testing Grounds?
You can join Testing Grounds now: it is online. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 9 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 100%: 168 hours up out of 168. The first time Rust Zerg Life saw it was on 13 September 2026.
What is the performance like on Testing Grounds?
Server fps held an average of 5 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 5. It reached a maximum of 73,668 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 2,301 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
What Rust version is Testing Grounds on?
The server Testing Grounds runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 with Linux as its operating system. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What is the location of Testing Grounds?
No region is published by Testing Grounds. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. You can reach it at 104.129.132.215:28039.
Wipe cycle
What happens on wipe day on Testing Grounds?
The average peak for its recent wipes was 0 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does Testing Grounds wipe?
Once a month Testing Grounds wipes, along with the force wipe. When every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, that is its next wipe. The world in play right now was made 13 days 11 hours ago.
Join the server
What is the process to join Testing Grounds?
You can join by opening the console with F1 and typing client.connect 104.129.132.215:28039. Or hit Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^z,^y
Game
gmrust
mp20
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^z
^y
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.