On air · chart position #8,538
Drops
Online EU 185.180.2.13:28298 checked 10m ago
Players
Drops
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 26 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 38% of all ranked servers, top 73% in EU. 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.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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
Quick answers
Host and version
Is Drops online, and how reliable is it?
Drops is up as you read this. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 13 hours ago. Of the past 2 full days it was running for 47 of 48 hours, or 98% of the time. Rust Charts has tracked it since 26 October 2026.
Where is Drops located?
With its EU tag, Drops puts itself in Europe. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. 185.180.2.13:28298 is its address.
Which version of Rust does Drops run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is the version Drops runs. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Does Drops run smoothly?
It averaged 20 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 20. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 103,289 entities. Its memory climbed as high as 3,628 MB. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Player counts
How busy is Drops?
Right now 0 players are on Drops, out of 30 slots. Seven-day figures: 0 players on average and 2 at the peak. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 15:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
How does Drops rank against other Rust servers?
On player hours for the past week, Drops is #8,538: top 38% overall and #2,131 in Europe.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on Drops?
Too few wipes on record for Drops to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and it covers every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 3 days 2 hours.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on Drops?
You will not find a gather rate in the name Drops. The default group size of 8 players applies here. You play pve, other players cannot be fought. The server browser shows it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. You will find Oxide plugins running. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does Drops run?
Drops runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 26830, generated by the game. Since the same size and seed give the same map, this page links to it on RustMaps.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Drops?
These Rust Charts lists include Drops: EU Rust servers, Modded Rust servers and Rust PvE servers. On the server list, these filters put it in view: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
What do the server tags on Drops mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from Drops: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp30 (Max players): It has 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): This server reports build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^p (PvE): This is PvE: the world is the danger, not other players; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide, also known as uMod; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this server under Modded; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. Player numbers now, queue size and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Join details
How do I join Drops?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 185.180.2.13:28298 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.