thegibson
167.179.166.219:28015 checked 14m 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 43% 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.
- usual gap
- 6 days between real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0% else halves by day 2
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 02:47 UTC 6d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Sat 3 Oct, 01:53 UTC 12d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 6 days | 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.
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Player Count
thegibson ranking: what position does it hold?
In the top 43% of all ranked servers, thegibson is #9,392 on player hours for the last seven days.
Is thegibson busy?
thegibson: 0 players now, with 2 slots available. The seven-day average player count stands at 0, and the highest point was 2.
Tags and Filters
thegibson tags: what do they indicate?
The game's server browser reads these tags from thegibson: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard; mp2 (Max players): Slots: 2; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join; cs167781 (Build): Game build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $r? (Region code): Region code not set. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and the time its world was made, all from the tags.
Where does thegibson appear in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include thegibson are: Rust community servers, ranked. It appears 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 week.
Server Overview
thegibson Rust version: which one?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what thegibson uses. Joining requires the same protocol; Steam updates your game for you.
How smooth is the performance on thegibson?
Over 48 hours, it averaged 115 server fps; the lowest was 53. It held up to 71,811 entities: everything from buildings to deployables in the world. The maximum memory used was 3,289 MB. What players experience as lag is low fps combined with a rising entity count.
What is the uptime and reliability of thegibson?
The server is online: thegibson. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 2 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. The first time BestRustServers.xyz saw it was on 13 September 2026.
What is the location of thegibson?
There is no region published by thegibson. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. 167.179.166.219:28015 is its address.
Settings & Map
Which map is used on thegibson?
Generated by the game, the map on thegibson is procedural, size 3,500, seed 108205031. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
What are the settings and rules for thegibson?
A gather rate is not given in the name thegibson. The default cap of 8 players per group is in force. Listed as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC: off.
Wipe Schedule
When does thegibson wipe?
Too few wipes are on record for thegibson to reveal its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next force wipe arrives, when all Rust servers wipe. Its world dates from 6 days 12 hours.
What happens on wipe day on thegibson?
An average peak of 1 players was drawn by its recent wipes. 1 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. The crowd held above half the peak until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. By day 2 the crowd had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
Connect
What is the process to join thegibson?
Enter client.connect 167.179.166.219:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust), or use Launch Rust on this page to open Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Rust survival, standard.
mp2- Max players Slots: 2.
ts8- Group limit Default team size: 8.
v2634- Protocol Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join.
cs167781- Build Game build number: 167781.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$r?- Region code Region code not set.
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.