Online 104.143.3.209:29015 checked 7m ago
BW Test Server
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 40 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 62% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 7d 17h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 17hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 17hThu 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 1, 1 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 19:53 UTC FW27d ago | 1 | – | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
About the server
Is BW Test Server online, and how reliable is it?
Online now, BW Test Server is up. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 14 hours ago. 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 167 of 168 hours up. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does BW Test Server run smoothly?
Averaging 59 server fps across the last 48 hours, it held a floor of 43. Up to 115,836 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. The memory ceiling was 5,957 MB. A climbing entity count plus low fps: that is lag, as players experience it.
Which Rust version is BW Test Server on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at BW Test Server. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is BW Test Server located?
There is no region published on BW Test Server. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. The address you connect to is 104.143.3.209:29015.
Server tags
What do the server tags on BW Test Server mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival as standard; mp40 (Max players): The cap is 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Game protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays; modded (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays are the tags BW Test Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include BW Test Server?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include BW Test Server are: Modded Rust servers, live. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on BW Test Server?
The procedural map on BW Test Server is size 4,250, generated by the game from seed 1583848389. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on BW Test Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of BW Test Server. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. build, gather and raid in the standard game: that is the survival game mode. PvP is on, and so is raiding. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Plugins in use: Oxide. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Population
What is the population on BW Test Server at the moment?
0 of 40 slots are filled on BW Test Server right now. The seven-day average sits at 0 players; the peak reached 1.
Where does BW Test Server sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place BW Test Server at #13,898, among the top 62% of ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on BW Test Server?
With the force wipe, BW Test Server wipes once a month. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. The world it runs now was made 27 days 5 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on BW Test Server?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe.
Joining the server
How do I join BW Test Server?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 104.143.3.209:29015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you. https://discord.com/invite/ZHnKkR9VaZ is where its website lives.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z,modded
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^o
^z
modded
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.