The Batcave
Offline 157.85.86.153:28015 checked 12d 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 6 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 15h. The 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Settings and map
What settings and rules does The Batcave run?
The name of The Batcave does not state a gather rate. 8 players per group is the default limit. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. PvP and raiding are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins are run on it. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
What is the map on The Batcave?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of The Batcave has size 2,500 and seed 50000. You can view the map on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Where does The Batcave appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
The Rust Server Index lists that include The Batcave are Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
How should you read the tags listed for The Batcave?
Filed under these tags, as published by The Batcave and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp40 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; older or newer clients cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build on file: 166652; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside the Facepunch force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide, also known as uMod, provides the plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
Which wipe timetable does The Batcave follow?
The estimate of The Batcave's next wipe comes from the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 21 days 21 hours is when its current world was made. Filed in its tags: a monthly wipe schedule.
Player counts
How is The Batcave ranked compared with the rest?
On player hours over seven days, The Batcave takes #15,150, within the top 70% of ranked servers.
What does the player count on The Batcave look like?
The last check found The Batcave offline, last seen 12 days 19 hours ago.
Operator and status
Which Rust build is The Batcave running?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what you will find on The Batcave. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is The Batcave reachable, and does it stay up?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of The Batcave was 12 days 19 hours ago. Of the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were up, 0% of the time. On 6 October 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Where in the world is The Batcave hosted?
No region is published by The Batcave. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 157.85.86.153:28015.
How to join
What is the way onto The Batcave?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 157.85.86.153:28015 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
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.