Offline 137.83.97.27:28015 checked 11d ago
The Sandbox
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 10 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 60% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
ResultsWipes
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server details
Is The Sandbox online, and how reliable is it?
Down at the moment, The Sandbox was last seen 11 days 4 hours ago. 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 0 of 168 hours up. On 16 October 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Which Rust version is The Sandbox on?
Windows carries Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 at The Sandbox. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is The Sandbox located?
Nothing on The Sandbox states a region. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 137.83.97.27:28015 is the address.
Server tags
What do the server tags on The Sandbox mean?
Tags published by The Sandbox and picked up by the in-game browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): The cap is 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the game default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): Build number: 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays. You will also find its current players, its queue and the age of its world in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include The Sandbox?
You will find The Sandbox on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Modded Rust servers, live and Build and creative servers, live. Under the server list's filters it appears in: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Map and rules
Which map is running on The Sandbox?
A procedural map, generated by the game, is what The Sandbox runs.
What are the rules and settings on The Sandbox?
The name of The Sandbox does not say what the gather rate is. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. It plays as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Under Modded in the server browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Oxide plugins are running. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Population
What is the population on The Sandbox at the moment?
The board shows The Sandbox offline, last seen 11 days 4 hours ago.
Where does The Sandbox sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place The Sandbox at #12,967, among the top 60% of ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on The Sandbox?
The record holds too few of The Sandbox's wipes to tell its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now was made 25 days 23 hours ago.
Joining the server
How do I join The Sandbox?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 137.83.97.27:28015. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp10
ts8
v2634
cs166494
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.