Testing Grounds
Online 104.129.132.215:28039 checked 12m 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 70% 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 28d 11h. 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 FW6d 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.
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What is the wipe schedule on Testing Grounds?
Testing Grounds wipes once a month, with the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 6 days 13 hours ago.
What does wipe day look like on Testing Grounds?
Its recent wipes drew 0 players at their busiest, on average. On the latest wipe the crowd peaked 0 hours after the wipe.
Players
How busy is Testing Grounds?
Right now Testing Grounds has 0 players on 20 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players.
How does Testing Grounds rank against other Rust servers?
Testing Grounds is #16,614 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on Testing Grounds?
Testing Grounds gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is listed under Modded in the server browser: plugins or settings change the game. It runs Carbon plugins. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does Testing Grounds run?
Testing Grounds runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 3,500 with seed 578369846. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on Testing Grounds mean?
Testing Grounds publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp20 (Max players): 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs167058 (Build): Game build 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game; ^y (Carbon): Runs Carbon, a plugin framework. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include Testing Grounds?
Testing Grounds fits these Zongarust lists: Best modded Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server
Where is Testing Grounds located?
Testing Grounds publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 104.129.132.215:28039.
Is Testing Grounds online, and how reliable is it?
Testing Grounds is online right now. It last restarted about 11 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.
Does Testing Grounds run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 5 server fps on average, never below 5. It carried up to 73,108 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 2,338 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does Testing Grounds run?
Testing Grounds runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join Testing Grounds?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 104.129.132.215:28039. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.