BlackDragon
Online EU 85.175.6.244:28300 checked 7m 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 12% of all ranked servers, top 34% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 5players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 13hThu 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 5, 23 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 17:57 UTC FW27d ago |
5 | – | 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 BlackDragon run?
No gather rate appears in the name BlackDragon. 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. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Filed under plugins: Oxide. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
Which map is in use on BlackDragon?
BlackDragon runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 224522245, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps; the same size and seed give the same map.
Lists and filters
Where does BlackDragon appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is BlackDragon: Tutorial servers, Rust servers filed under Europe and Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Tutorial on ^t, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What is meant by the tags on BlackDragon?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: BlackDragon gives gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp150 (Max players): Player cap: 150; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): A monthly cycle: wipes fall with Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial runs here for new players; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings; EU (Europe): The browser files it under Europe. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on BlackDragon?
Its recent wipes averaged 5 players at peak. The latest wipe peaked 23 hours in.
How often is BlackDragon wiped, and on what schedule?
With the force wipe, BlackDragon wipes once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, taken by every Rust server. The world it runs now was made 27 days 11 hours. Filed in its tags: a monthly wipe schedule.
Players and ranking
Where does BlackDragon sit in the rankings?
Filed under rankings: #2,619 for BlackDragon on seven-day player hours, #1,000 in Europe, top 12% overall.
How many players are on BlackDragon at the moment?
Filed under live counts: BlackDragon, 0 players on 150 slots at present. Filed under seven-day figures: an average of 1 players and a peak of 6. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 17:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.
Server facts
What version does BlackDragon use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Windows, is what BlackDragon runs. Steam keeps your game updated, but the protocol must match for you to join.
Is BlackDragon reachable, and does it stay up?
Right now BlackDragon is up and running. About 17 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 99%, 167 hours out of 168. On 13 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Is the performance on BlackDragon good?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 147, with a low of 125. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 109,787 entities. Up to 5,364 MB of memory was in use. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
What is the location of BlackDragon?
BlackDragon gives Europe as its location and the tag EU. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. You will reach it at 85.175.6.244:28300.
How to join
What steps lead onto BlackDragon?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 85.175.6.244:28300. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you. The website can be found at https://rustafields.gamestores.app/.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,EU,^t,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp150
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Gameplay
^t
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.