The BAD idea
139.180.52.71:28015 checked 11m 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 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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 The BAD idea?
You will not find a gather rate in the name The BAD idea. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. pve is the game mode, other players cannot be fought. Community is its section in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
What is the map on The BAD idea?
Size 4,500, seed 6738, generated by the game: the procedural map on The BAD idea. Same size and seed, same map: RustMaps shows it from this page.
Population
How full is The BAD idea?
Right now, 0 players are on The BAD idea, which has 100 slots. The average player count for the last seven days is 0.
What position does The BAD idea hold in the server rankings?
For player hours over the last week, The BAD idea is #15,967, which puts it in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Lists and tags
How should you read the tags on The BAD idea?
For the game's server browser, The BAD idea publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8—the default setting for Rust; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): It runs build 165217; ptrak (Networking): Standard RakNet networking is in use here; $r? (Region code): There's no region code here; ^p (PvE): No player-versus-player combat; the environment is the threat. Also in the tags: its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, and the top of this page shows them.
Where does The BAD idea appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
The Rust Zerg Life lists that include The BAD idea are Rust community servers for clans and Best Rust PvE servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
What is the uptime and reliability of The BAD idea?
You can join The BAD idea now: it is online. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 18 days 7 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time across the last 7 full days: 168 of 168 hours. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 15 September 2026.
Is The BAD idea smooth to play on?
Over the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 81 and never dropped below 70. It reached a maximum of 110,114 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 7,010 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
Which Rust build does The BAD idea use?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 is what The BAD idea runs, on Windows. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Where can you find The BAD idea?
From The BAD idea, no region is published. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. Connect to it at 139.180.52.71:28015.
Wipe days
When does The BAD idea wipe?
So few of The BAD idea's wipes are recorded that its rhythm cannot be told yet. Come Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe arrives for every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 28 days 16 hours ago.
Connect
What is the process to join The BAD idea?
You can join by opening the console with F1 and typing client.connect 139.180.52.71:28015. Or hit Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^p,gmrust,cs165217,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp100
ts8
v2633
cs165217
ptrak
$r?
Gameplay
^p
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.