Online 104.193.180.33:25565 checked 7m ago
cave testing
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 8 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 08:06 UTC26d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Operator and location
Is cave testing online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at cave testing: online as you read this. 167 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Which Rust version is cave testing on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at cave testing. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is cave testing located?
Nothing on cave testing states a region. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. 104.193.180.33:25565 is the address.
Server tags
What do the server tags on cave testing mean?
Tags published by cave testing and picked up by the in-game browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp8 (Max players): The cap is 8 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): Game protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays. 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 cave testing?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include cave testing are: Modded Rust servers, live. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Map and rules
Which map is running on cave testing?
cave testing runs a map the game generates: procedural.
What are the rules and settings on cave testing?
Nothing in the name of cave testing states a gather rate. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. It plays as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players here. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. It runs plugins: Oxide. Anti-cheat is off: VAC.
Population
What is the population on cave testing at the moment?
0 of 8 slots are filled on cave testing right now. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Where does cave testing sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place cave testing at #15,290, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on cave testing?
To tell its rhythm, more of cave testing's wipes need to be on record. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 26 days 15 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on cave testing?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join cave testing?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 104.193.180.33:25565. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp8,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp8
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
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.