Rusty Balloon Knot
172.240.53.131:2856 checked 17h 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 1 Oct. 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 22d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 2 players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 22d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 25 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:02 UTCFW 12d ago | 2 | – | 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.
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Quick answers
Population
What is the rank of Rusty Balloon Knot?
Rank #11,089 over the last seven days in player hours: Rusty Balloon Knot, inside the top 50% of ranked servers.
What is the player count on Rusty Balloon Knot?
At this moment, Rusty Balloon Knot is offline, with the last sighting 17 hours ago. The average player count over the last seven days is 0, with a peak of 1.
Server Tags
Rusty Balloon Knot tags: what do they indicate?
The game's server browser reads these tags from Rusty Balloon Knot: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp150 (Max players): Slots: 150; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are limited to 8, the default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166494 (Build): Build 166494; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $r? (Region code): No region code listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The Modded category applies; plugins or settings alter gameplay. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue and when its world was made, taken from the tags.
Rusty Balloon Knot in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters: which ones?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include Rusty Balloon Knot are: Best modded Rust servers. These filters on the server list display it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server Overview
What Rust version is Rusty Balloon Knot on?
The combination is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux for Rusty Balloon Knot. Your game has to match the protocol to connect; Steam takes care of updating it.
How smooth is the performance on Rusty Balloon Knot?
For the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 95, never dropping below 80. The entity count reached 69,184, covering buildings, deployables and all other world objects. The maximum memory used was 3,893 MB. What players experience as lag is low fps combined with a rising entity count.
Rusty Balloon Knot uptime and reliability: what are they?
Offline now for Rusty Balloon Knot, last seen 17 hours ago. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 10 days 19 hours ago. Over the past 7 full days, it was online 168 of 168 hours, 100% of the time. It was first seen by BestRustServers.xyz on 1 October 2026.
What is the location of Rusty Balloon Knot?
There is no region published by Rusty Balloon Knot. BestRustServers.xyz does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 172.240.53.131:2856 is its address.
Rules and Settings
What is the map on Rusty Balloon Knot?
Generated by the game, the map on Rusty Balloon Knot is procedural, size 3,500, seed 1862422565. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
Rusty Balloon Knot rules and settings: what are they?
The name Rusty Balloon Knot carries no gather multiplier. No group limit is stated; the game's default of 8 players applies. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Listed as Modded in the browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Oxide plugins are used. VAC: on.
Wipe Schedule
When does Rusty Balloon Knot wipe?
Once a month Rusty Balloon Knot wipes, with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe that takes every Rust server. The current world has been running since 12 days 20 hours.
On Rusty Balloon Knot, what occurs on wipe day?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. 25 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Connect
Rusty Balloon Knot joining: how is it done?
Enter client.connect 172.240.53.131:2856 in the console (F1 in Rust), or use Launch Rust on this page to open Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival gameplay.
mp150- Max players Slots: 150.
ts8- Group limit Teams are limited to 8, the default.
v2634- Protocol Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166494- Build Build 166494.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$r?- Region code No region code listed.
Mods and access
^o- Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z- Modded The Modded category applies; plugins or settings alter gameplay.
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.