RS-8868Community server
thegibson
Online 167.179.166.219:28015 checked 12m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server 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.
Rank
Top 40% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not 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, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 02:47 UTC5d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Sat 3 Oct, 01:53 UTC11d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 6 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.
Population
How many players are usually on thegibson?
On 2 slots, thegibson has 0 players at this moment. Over seven days it averaged 0, and the highest point was 2. At 09:00 UTC it was busiest in the last 48 hours, averaging 2 players.
Where does thegibson sit in the rankings?
Ranked #8,868 on seven-day player hours, thegibson is in the top 40% of all ranked servers.
Tags, lists, and filters
Where does thegibson appear among the Top Rust Servers lists and filters?
On these Top Rust Servers lists you will find thegibson: Best Rust community servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
How should you read the tags on thegibson?
The game's server browser reads the tags that thegibson publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, as in Rust; mp2 (Max players): Player slots: 2; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, as standard in the game; v2634 (Protocol): This server runs protocol 2634; match it to connect; cs167231 (Build): Running game build 167231; ptrak (Networking): This uses RakNet, Rust's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is assigned. Shown at the top of this page, and also in the tags: its players now, its queue, and the time its world was made.
Settings and map
Which map is running on thegibson?
The map on thegibson is procedural, size 3,500, seed 108205031, and generated by the game. Viewing it on RustMaps is possible from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.
Which settings and rules apply on thegibson?
No gather rate is given in the name thegibson. Up to 8 players per group, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, the normal mode where you gather, build and raid. You can fight and raid other players. A community server, it is found under the Community tab. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is disabled.
About the server
What version is thegibson running?
On Linux, thegibson operates Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Your game needs the same protocol to connect; Steam takes care of updating it.
How well does thegibson perform?
Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 122, with a low of 106. The maximum entities it carried was 71,982, covering buildings, deployables and the rest. Its memory use reached 3,029 MB at most. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
What is the location of thegibson?
A region is not published by thegibson. Top Rust Servers does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You reach it at 167.179.166.219:28015.
Is thegibson currently online?
The server thegibson is currently online. Going by its reported uptime, it restarted about 5 days ago. Across the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, or 100%. It was first observed by Top Rust Servers on 13 September 2026.
Wipe details
What can you expect on wipe day on thegibson?
The average busiest count over recent wipes is 1 players. The latest wipe saw its highest player count 1 hours in. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. In the cases where it did not hold, the crowd dropped below half by day 2.
On what schedule does thegibson wipe?
Not enough wipe data exists yet to identify the rhythm of thegibson. A force wipe happens monthly across all Rust servers; the next is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The present world has been live since 5 days 1 hours ago.
How to join
What are the steps to join thegibson?
Use the console: open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 167.179.166.219:28015. Or simply click Launch Rust here; it opens the game through Steam and connects you.