Drops
Online EU 185.180.2.13:28298 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 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Rules and settings
Where can you read the rules and settings that apply on Drops?
The name of Drops does not state a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. The server runs pve, no PvP fighting. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Filed under plugins: Oxide. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
Which map is in use on Drops?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of Drops has size 4,250 and seed 26830. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry Drops?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is Drops: Rust servers filed under Europe, Modded Rust servers, filed by play style and Rust PvE servers, filed A to Z. Filed under these filters on the server list: 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.
How should you read the tags listed for Drops?
Filed under these tags, as published by Drops and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp30 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 30; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, as in the standard game; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): Build on file: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the danger comes from the world; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): This one is Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays; EU (Europe): Server browser region: Europe. See also the top of this page, where the tags carry the current players, the queue and the time the world was made.
Wipes and resets
Which wipe timetable does Drops follow?
The record holds too few of Drops's wipes to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe reaches every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its present world dates from 3 days 5 hours.
Players and ranking
What position does Drops hold among Rust servers?
On seven-day player hours, Drops takes #8,545 overall and #2,130 in Europe, within the top 38% of ranked servers.
Is Drops quiet or crowded?
The live count for Drops stands at 0 players, out of 30 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players; the peak reached 2. Filed under busiest hour: 15:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, averaging 1 players.
Server facts
Which Rust build is Drops running?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on Drops. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is Drops reachable, and does it stay up?
Right now Drops is up and running. About 16 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. Uptime for the last 2 full days came to 98%, 47 hours out of 48. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 26 October 2026.
What is performance like on Drops?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 20, with a low of 20. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 103,289 entities. Memory use reached as much as 3,628 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
Where in the world is Drops hosted?
The EU tag places Drops, by its own listing, in Europe. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 185.180.2.13:28298.
Connecting
How can you connect to Drops?
Enter client.connect 185.180.2.13:28298 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 mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^p,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp30
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Gameplay
^p
Mods and access
^o
^z
Region
EU
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.