Offline 178.158.214.251:28015 checked 11d ago
hard
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 2 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
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 1, 0 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 16 Oct, 11:49 UTC12d 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 hard online, and how reliable is it?
Offline right now, with a last sighting 11 days 22 hours ago: hard. 0 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 0% of the time. On 17 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Which Rust version is hard on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows: that is the setup at hard. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is hard located?
No region is published by hard. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. You will find it at 178.158.214.251:28015.
Tags
What do the server tags on hard mean?
Tags published by hard and picked up by the in-game browser: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival as standard; mp2 (Max players): The cap is 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: join only if your game matches that version; cs167781 (Build): It runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. You will also find its current players, its queue and the age of its world in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include hard?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include hard are: Community servers, ranked live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Map and rules
Which map is running on hard?
A procedural map, generated by the game, is what hard runs.
What are the rules and settings on hard?
No gather rate appears in the name of hard. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. build, gather and raid in the standard game: that is the survival game mode. You can fight and raid other players here. You will find it listed as Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Population
How full is hard right now?
Down at the moment, hard was last seen 11 days 22 hours ago.
Where does hard sit in the rankings?
Ranked #12,998 on seven-day player hours, hard is in the top 60% of all ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on hard?
The rhythm of hard's wipes cannot be told yet, because not enough are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. 12 days 23 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on hard?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. The crowd reached its peak 0 hours after the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join hard?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 178.158.214.251:28015. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp2
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
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.