DST Sandbox Server
Online 66.51.97.53:28005 checked 10m 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 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 8h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 3players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 8hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 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.
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
On DST Sandbox Server, which rules and settings apply?
No gather rate appears in the name DST Sandbox Server. 8 players per group is the default limit. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. 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.
Which map is in use on DST Sandbox Server?
DST Sandbox Server runs a procedural map of size 6,000 with seed 343673, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps; the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry DST Sandbox Server?
These lists on Rust Server Index take DST Sandbox Server: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style and Build and creative servers. 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.
What is meant by the tags on DST Sandbox Server?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: DST Sandbox Server gives gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp50 (Max players): Player cap: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): Build on file: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this under Modded. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
What happens on wipe day at DST Sandbox Server?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 3 players. The latest wipe peaked 47 hours in.
How often is DST Sandbox Server wiped, and on what schedule?
One wipe a month is all DST Sandbox Server runs, and it comes with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its present world dates from 27 days 13 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Population
What position does DST Sandbox Server hold among Rust servers?
Filed under rankings: #11,115 for DST Sandbox Server on seven-day player hours, top 50% overall.
What does the player count on DST Sandbox Server look like?
Filed under live counts: DST Sandbox Server, 0 players on 50 slots at present. Filed under seven-day figures: an average of 0 players and a peak of 1. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 13:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Operator and status
What version does DST Sandbox Server use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Linux, is what DST Sandbox Server runs. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is DST Sandbox Server reachable, and does it stay up?
You will find DST Sandbox Server online as of now. Its reported uptime gives the last restart as roughly 5 hours ago. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Is the performance on DST Sandbox Server good?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 5, with a low of 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 208,505 entities. The peak memory figure stood at 4,147 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
Which region is DST Sandbox Server in?
There is no region on record for DST Sandbox Server; it publishes none. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 66.51.97.53:28005.
Joining the server
What is the way onto DST Sandbox Server?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 66.51.97.53:28005. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
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.