Online 15.204.209.102:28018 checked 12m ago
Skepticals Server
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, measured since 21 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 28% 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 5h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 5hThu 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 2, 45 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 4 Oct, 04:21 UTC25d ago | 2 | – | 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.
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Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Operator and location
Is Skepticals Server online, and how reliable is it?
Online now, Skepticals Server is up. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 11 hours ago. The last 7 full days put it at 154 of 168 hours up, 92% uptime. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 21 September 2026.
Does Skepticals Server run smoothly?
81 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 38. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world pushed the entity count to 69,888. Memory use reached 2,721 MB. A climbing entity count plus low fps: that is lag, as players experience it.
Which Rust version is Skepticals Server on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at Skepticals Server. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is Skepticals Server located?
Nothing on Skepticals Server 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. The address you connect to is 15.204.209.102:28018.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on Skepticals Server mean?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival, vanilla style; mp10 (Max players): The cap is 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): Game protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched; ^p (PvE): Players don't fight each other here; the world does the killing; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework is Carbon are the tags Skepticals 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.
Who runs Skepticals Server?
The cravemc.net hostname on Skepticals Server is unique among the servers we track.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Skepticals Server?
These Rust Player Stats lists take Skepticals Server: Modded Rust servers, live and Best Rust PvE servers (2026). Under the server list's filters it appears in: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Map and rules
Which map is running on Skepticals Server?
Skepticals Server runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,500, seed 539490430. The map repeats with that size and seed, and you can view it on RustMaps from here.
What are the rules and settings on Skepticals Server?
The name of Skepticals Server does not say what the gather rate is. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. other players are not fought: that is the pve game mode. Under Modded in the server browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins in use: Carbon. Its self-description is vanilla: the game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Live counts
How full is Skepticals Server right now?
Out of 10 slots, 0 are taken on Skepticals Server at this moment. The seven-day average sits at 0 players; the peak reached 3. Peak traffic in the last 48 hours landed at 19:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Where does Skepticals Server sit in the rankings?
Ranked #6,314 on seven-day player hours, Skepticals Server is in the top 28% of all ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on Skepticals Server?
Once a month, Skepticals Server wipes with the force wipe. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. 25 days 8 hours ago, its current world was made. The wipe schedule in its tags is monthly.
What does wipe day look like on Skepticals Server?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. The crowd reached its peak 45 hours after the latest wipe.
Joining the server
How do I join Skepticals Server?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 15.204.209.102:28018. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^m,^v,^p,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp10
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^p
Mods and access
^z
^y
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.