Station NA-2280 · recording
Testing Grounds
Online NA 45.45.239.176:28015 checked 10m ago
- Players now
- 0/ 15
- 0% full
- Motion · 24 h
- M0.0■steady
- +0 players on the day
- 7-day average
- 2
- peak 8
- Rank
- #2,280
- top 10% · #362 in NA
- Last wipe
- 26d ago
- monthly schedule
- Next wipe
- 8d 8h
- Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The last 48 hours, hour by hour
hourly average players · UTC- Now
- 0of 15 slots
- Motion · 24 h
- M0.0■steady+0 players
- Sharpest hour
- +3into Mon 16:00 UTC
- Peak · 48 h
- 6most players in any hour
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 10% of all ranked servers, top 19% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 8h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 5players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 8d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 8hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 13 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | M | Peak | First 48 h | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 01:18 UTC26d ago | M0.7▲rising | 5 | – | running | 0 |
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. M: the magnitude of the wipe, log10 of the rise from the players before it to that peak. First 48 h: its players hour by hour from the wipe. 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
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Which map is running on Testing Grounds?
Generated by the game, the map on Testing Grounds is procedural, size 1,200 with seed 2147483647. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Which settings and rules apply on Testing Grounds?
No gather rate appears in the name of Testing Grounds. At the game's default, groups can have up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players are both allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game here; the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide is the plugin framework it runs. It describes itself as vanilla, which means rates, kits and rules are as Facepunch ships them. The server has VAC off, Valve's anti-cheat.
Player counts
What is the current population on Testing Grounds?
At this moment, Testing Grounds records 0 players across 15 slots. Across seven days this server recorded an average of 2 players and a peak of 8. The last 48 hours show their highest activity at 16:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.
How does Testing Grounds rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Testing Grounds at #2,280, in the top 10% of all ranked servers and #362 in North America.
Operator and location
How reliably does Testing Grounds stay online?
Right now, you can reach Testing Grounds. Going by the uptime figure it reports, it restarted about 22 hours ago. Of the 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was up for 168, or 100% of the time. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Server Trends first recorded it.
How well does Testing Grounds perform under load?
Across the last 48 hours it averaged 30 server fps, with a floor of 30. At its highest, it carried 7,075 entities: buildings, deployables and the world's other contents. Memory use peaked at 1,218 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from fps dropping and the entity count climbing.
Where in the world is Testing Grounds hosted?
The NA tag is how Testing Grounds lists itself in North America. Rust Server Trends does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You reach it at 45.45.239.176:28015.
Which Rust version is Testing Grounds running?
Testing Grounds is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on a machine with Linux. You can only join when your game is on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe day
What does wipe day look like on Testing Grounds?
On average, the busiest point of its recent wipes drew 5 players. The peak on the most recent wipe came 13 hours after the wipe.
How often does Testing Grounds wipe, and on which days?
The force wipe is the only wipe Testing Grounds takes, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: that is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The present world dates from 26 days 8 hours. Its tags state a monthly wipe schedule.
Server tags
What do the server tags on Testing Grounds mean?
These are the tags Testing Grounds publishes for the browser to read: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla mode; mp15 (Max players): Slots: 15; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default, and that's the limit here; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on protocol 2635 to join; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Rates, kits and rules are as Facepunch ships them; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), runs here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): North America is the region it's listed under in the browser. The tags also carry its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.
On which Rust Server Trends lists does Testing Grounds appear?
The Rust Server Trends lists that take in Testing Grounds are: Modded Rust servers, tracked live and North America Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Join the server
How do you connect to Testing Grounds?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and typing client.connect 45.45.239.176:28015 into the console. Another route is to use Launch Rust and join from this page, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.
Magnitude scale. M = log10 of the absolute the change in players over 24 hours: M1.0 is 10 players, M2.0 is 100, M3.0 is 1,000. Classes: micro under 1, minor 1–2, light 2–3, moderate 3–4, strong 4 and over. ▲ rising, ▼ falling.