Online 64.20.40.98:27058 checked 9m ago
Build Contest
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% 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 0, 0 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 22:02 UTC26d ago | 0 | – | 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.
Operator and location
Is Build Contest online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at Build Contest: online as you read this. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 4 hours ago. The last 7 full days put it at 167 of 168 hours up, 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Does Build Contest run smoothly?
40 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 40. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world pushed the entity count to 66,206. Memory use reached 2,207 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps paired with an entity count on the rise.
Which Rust version is Build Contest on?
On Linux, Build Contest runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is Build Contest located?
Nothing on Build Contest 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 64.20.40.98:27058.
Server tags
What do the server tags on Build Contest mean?
Tags published by Build Contest and picked up by the in-game browser: gmrust (Game mode): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; 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; ^c (Creative): No gathering needed: build what you like in the sandbox; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays. 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 Build Contest?
These Rust Player Stats lists take Build Contest: Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live and Rust creative servers, live. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server rules
Which map is running on Build Contest?
The procedural map on Build Contest is size 3,500, generated by the game from seed 1337. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page. Its map is called Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on Build Contest?
The name of Build Contest does not say what the gather rate is. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. build & creative, building in a sandbox, no gathering. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. Plugins in use: Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Player counts
How full is Build Contest right now?
Out of 40 slots, 0 are taken on Build Contest at this moment. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does Build Contest sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place Build Contest at #15,349, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on Build Contest?
The rhythm of Build Contest's wipes cannot be told yet, because not enough are on record. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 26 days 6 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on Build Contest?
0 players on average is what its recent wipes drew at their busiest. The crowd reached its peak 0 hours after the latest wipe.
Connect
How do I join Build Contest?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 64.20.40.98:27058. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. https://discord.com/invite/Yk2bBhmVwP is where its website lives.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^c,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Gameplay
^c
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.