The BAD idea
Online 139.180.52.71:28015 checked 17m 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 67% 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.
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What is the wipe schedule on The BAD idea?
Not enough of The BAD idea's wipes are on record yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 1 October at 18:00 UTC. Its current world was made 13 days 20 hours ago.
Players
How busy is The BAD idea?
Right now The BAD idea has 0 players on 100 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players.
How does The BAD idea rank against other Rust servers?
The BAD idea is #15,496 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 67% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on The BAD idea?
The BAD idea gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is pve, no fighting other players. It is a community server, listed under Community in the server browser. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does The BAD idea run?
The BAD idea runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 4,500 with seed 6738. 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 The BAD idea mean?
The BAD idea publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs165217 (Build): Game build 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^p (PvE): Players don't fight each other; the danger is the world. 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 The BAD idea?
The BAD idea fits these Zongarust lists: Best Rust community servers and Best Rust PvE servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
The server
Where is The BAD idea located?
The BAD idea publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 139.180.52.71:28015.
Is The BAD idea online, and how reliable is it?
The BAD idea is online right now. It last restarted about 3 days 12 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 15 September 2026.
Does The BAD idea run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 94 server fps on average, never below 80. It carried up to 109,881 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 4,136 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does The BAD idea run?
The BAD idea runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join The BAD idea?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 139.180.52.71:28015. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.