hard
Offline 178.158.214.251:28015 checked 10d 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 60% 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.
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
16 OCT 2026Fri 16 Oct, 11:49 UTC11d ago |
1 | – | 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.
Rules and settings
What settings and rules does hard run?
No gather rate appears in the name hard. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. It is listed under Community in the server browser and is a community server. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
What is the map on hard?
hard runs a procedural map, which the game generates.
Tags
Where does hard appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
The Rust Server Index lists that include hard are Community Rust servers, indexed. Filed 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 2 weeks.
How should you read the tags listed for hard?
These are the tags hard publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp2 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 2; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build here is 167781; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
What happens on wipe day at hard?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. The latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
How often is hard wiped, and on what schedule?
hard's rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of its wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and it wipes every Rust server. Its present world dates from 11 days 23 hours.
Players and ranking
What position does hard hold among Rust servers?
Filed under rankings: #12,998 for hard on seven-day player hours, top 60% overall.
What does the player count on hard look like?
The last check found hard offline, last seen 10 days 22 hours ago.
Operator and status
What version does hard use?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781, on Windows, is what hard runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is hard, and is it online now?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of hard was 10 days 22 hours ago. It was up 0 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 0% of the time. On 17 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Where in the world is hard hosted?
There is no region on record for hard; it publishes none. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 178.158.214.251:28015.
Connecting
What steps lead onto hard?
Enter client.connect 178.158.214.251:28015 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp2
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
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.