Online 203.16.163.8:27387 checked 11m ago
Drift Staging
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 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 66% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. 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 2, 0 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 14 Oct, 15:15 UTC15d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Tue 13 Oct, 17:17 UTC16d ago | 5 | – | 0.9 days | 0 |
| Mon 12 Oct, 20:37 UTC17d ago | 5 | – | 0.9 days | 0 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 14:21 UTC24d ago | 2 | halved by day 1 | 7.3 days | 0 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 15:18 UTC25d ago | 2 | – | 1 days | 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.
Server details
Is Drift Staging online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Drift Staging is online. About 13 hours ago is when it restarted, judging by its reported uptime. The last 7 full days put it at 167 of 168 hours up, 99% uptime. On 4 October 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Does Drift Staging run smoothly?
176 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 90. Its entity count reached 24,269: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The memory ceiling was 3,701 MB. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is Drift Staging on?
Linux carries Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 at Drift Staging. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is Drift Staging located?
There is no region published on Drift Staging. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 203.16.163.8:27387.
Tags
What do the server tags on Drift Staging mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival as standard; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 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): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded are the tags Drift Staging publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Drift Staging?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include Drift Staging are: Modded Rust 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.
Server rules
Which map is running on Drift Staging?
Size 3,500, seed 50000: that is the procedural map Drift Staging runs, generated by the game. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page. Read the map name off the board: Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on Drift Staging?
No gather rate appears in the name of Drift Staging. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Population
How full is Drift Staging right now?
Out of 40 slots, 0 are taken on Drift Staging at this moment. Seven days back gives an average of 0 players and a peak of 1.
Where does Drift Staging sit in the rankings?
Ranked #14,786 on seven-day player hours, Drift Staging is in the top 66% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Drift Staging?
There is no next wipe to predict for Drift Staging, which wipes at irregular times. 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 15 days 13 hours ago.
What does wipe day look like on Drift Staging?
4 players on average is what its recent wipes drew at their busiest. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. By day 1, it had fallen below half when it didn't hold.
Joining the server
How do I join Drift Staging?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 203.16.163.8:27387. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp40
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.