Online NA 45.45.239.176:28015 checked 12m ago
Testing Grounds
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 15 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 10% of all ranked servers, top 19% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 8d 23h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 23hThu 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 5, 13 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 01:18 UTC25d ago | 5 | – | 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.
Server details
Is Testing Grounds online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Testing Grounds is online. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 7 hours ago. The last 7 full days put it at 168 of 168 hours up, 100% uptime. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does Testing Grounds run smoothly?
Averaging 30 server fps across the last 48 hours, it held a floor of 30. Its entity count reached 7,075: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. 1,274 MB of memory was the high point. What players feel as lag is low fps paired with an entity count on the rise.
Which Rust version is Testing Grounds on?
On Linux, Testing Grounds runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is Testing Grounds located?
Its NA tag places Testing Grounds in North America. 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 45.45.239.176:28015.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on Testing Grounds mean?
gmvanilla (Game mode): It's vanilla survival; mp15 (Max players): The cap is 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America are the tags Testing Grounds publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. 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 Testing Grounds?
You will find Testing Grounds on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Modded Rust servers, live and North America Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on Testing Grounds?
The procedural map on Testing Grounds is size 1,200, generated by the game from seed 2147483647. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Testing Grounds?
No gather rate appears in the name of Testing Grounds. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. gather, build, raid: the standard game: that is the survival game mode. PvP is on, and so is raiding. Under Modded in the server browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. It runs plugins: Oxide. Vanilla is its own label: the game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched. VAC is off, so Valve's anti-cheat is not watching.
Population
How full is Testing Grounds right now?
2 of 15 slots are filled on Testing Grounds right now. Averaged across seven days: 2 players. The high point: 8. Peak traffic in the last 48 hours landed at 16:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.
Where does Testing Grounds sit in the rankings?
Over the last seven days Testing Grounds has logged enough player hours for #2,237, which puts it in the top 10% of ranked servers and at #354 in North America.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on Testing Grounds?
With the force wipe, Testing Grounds wipes once a month. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. 25 days 17 hours ago is when its current world was made. The wipe schedule in its tags is monthly.
What does wipe day look like on Testing Grounds?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 5 players on average. 13 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join Testing Grounds?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 45.45.239.176:28015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmvanilla
mp15
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Mods and access
^o
^z
Region
NA
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.