The Batcave
157.85.86.153:28015 checked 9m 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 6 Oct. 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
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 12h. The 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.
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Quick answers
Map and rules
What is the setup on The Batcave when it comes to rules and settings?
No gather rate appears in the name The Batcave. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. This one sits under Modded in the browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. It runs plugins: Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is active on The Batcave?
Size 2,500, seed 50000, generated by the game: the procedural map on The Batcave. From this page, RustMaps can show it: size and seed produce the same map each time.
Player count
What is the population like on The Batcave?
The server The Batcave is currently at 0 players out of 40 slots. Averaged over the last week, the player count is 0.
What is The Batcave's ranking?
In the top 71% of ranked servers, The Batcave holds #15,961 for player hours over the last seven days.
Lists and tags
How should you read the tags on The Batcave?
What the game's server browser gets from The Batcave is this tag list: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp40 (Max players): Capacity: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8—the default setting for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs166652 (Build): Build number: 166652; ptrak (Networking): Standard RakNet networking is in use here; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The Modded listing means plugins or settings have changed the game. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Which Rust Zerg Life filters and lists cover The Batcave?
Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs: that is where you will find The Batcave among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server details
How reliable is The Batcave, and is it up?
Right now, The Batcave is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 days 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 100%: 168 hours up out of 168. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 6 October 2026.
How well does The Batcave perform?
Over the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 205 and never dropped below 135. The world held as many as 29,825 entities, including buildings, deployables and everything else. At its highest, memory usage hit 3,551 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
Which Rust build does The Batcave use?
The server The Batcave runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 with Linux as its operating system. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, which Steam updates automatically.
Where can you find The Batcave?
There is no region published by The Batcave. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. You can reach it at 157.85.86.153:28015.
Wipe cycle
When does The Batcave wipe?
the force wipe is the basis for estimating The Batcave's next wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which every Rust server takes. 8 days ago is when its present world was created. Monthly wipes are listed in its tags.
Join the server
How can I connect to The Batcave?
Join by entering client.connect 157.85.86.153:28015 in the console (press F1 first). Or use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.