Players
DST Sandbox Server
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 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 47 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:13 UTC FW27d ago | 3 | – | 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.
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Quick answers
Host and version
Is DST Sandbox Server online, and how reliable is it?
You will find DST Sandbox Server online at this moment. About 13 hours ago is when it last restarted, to go by the uptime it reports. Of the past 7 full days it was running for 168 of 168 hours, or 100% of the time. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 13 September 2026.
Where is DST Sandbox Server located?
No region is published by DST Sandbox Server. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. You'll find it at 66.51.97.53:28005.
Which version of Rust does DST Sandbox Server run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what DST Sandbox Server runs. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does DST Sandbox Server run smoothly?
Never under 5, and 5 server fps on average, is how the last 48 hours went. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 208,505 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,057 MB. Lag, as players experience it, is low fps plus entities piling up.
Population
How busy is DST Sandbox Server?
DST Sandbox Server has 0 of its 50 slots filled right now. Seven-day figures: 0 players on average and 1 at the peak. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 13:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
How does DST Sandbox Server rank against other Rust servers?
In the seven-day player hours table, DST Sandbox Server is #11,144, inside the top 50% of all ranked servers.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on DST Sandbox Server?
Its recent wipes peaked at an average of 3 players. 47 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on DST Sandbox Server?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all DST Sandbox Server runs. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 27 days. The tags state a monthly wipe schedule.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on DST Sandbox Server?
The name DST Sandbox Server carries no gather rate. The default group size of 8 players applies here. survival is the game mode, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can fight and raid other players. Modded in the server browser is where it sits; plugins or settings alter the game. The plugins it runs number Oxide. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does DST Sandbox Server run?
DST Sandbox Server runs a procedural map of size 6,000 with seed 343673, generated by the game. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps; the same size and seed make the same map.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include DST Sandbox Server?
The Rust Charts lists that carry DST Sandbox Server are: Modded Rust servers and Rust build servers. On the server list, these filters put it in view: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on DST Sandbox Server mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from DST Sandbox Server: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): The server holds 50 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; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the Facepunch force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Plugins are handled by Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this server under Modded. At the top of this page you'll see the tags' extra details: players now, the queue, and the age of the world.
Getting in
How do I join DST Sandbox Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 66.51.97.53:28005. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
