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IR live Players77,657 Servers11,837 Warm3,729 Fresh wipes · 3h257 Frameevery 5 min
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REC Thermal scan · 48 h Sp1 0° now Linear · 0–8° · slots

cave testing

Online 104.193.180.33:25565 checked 9m ago

moddedoxide
Sp1 · players now 0/ 8
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
Tue 15:00flare: a wipe in that hourThu 12:00
0
7-day average
peak –
#15,335
rank
top 69%
26d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
too few wipes seen yet
UTC checked 9m ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
0123415:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 3 Oct, 08:06 UTC26d ago 0 – 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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LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on cave testing?

At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on cave testing?

The record of cave testing's wipes is not yet long enough to show a rhythm. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world in play now was made 26 days 6 hours ago.

Player counts

How busy is cave testing?

cave testing currently has 0 of its 8 slots filled. The average across the last seven days is 0 players.

How does cave testing rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over seven days put cave testing at #15,335, in the top 69% of ranked servers.

Map and rules

Which map does cave testing run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on cave testing.

What are the rules and settings on cave testing?

No gather rate appears in the name cave testing. Groups can contain up to 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid their bases. In the server browser it is Modded, meaning plugins or settings modify the game. Oxide plugins run on this server. VAC is off, which is Valve's anti-cheat.

About the server

Which version of Rust does cave testing run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the build cave testing runs, on Linux. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.

Is cave testing online, and how reliable is it?

The server is up at the moment: cave testing is online. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. The first record of it on Rust Heatmap is 13 September 2026.

Where is cave testing located?

No region is published by cave testing. A server says where it is, and Rust Heatmap shows that. The machine's actual location is not looked up. To connect, use 104.193.180.33:25565.

Lists and filters

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include cave testing?

The Rust Heatmap lists that cave testing fits are: Modded Rust servers, by live population. Filtering the list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more brings it up.

What do the server tags on cave testing mean?

These are the tags cave testing publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp8 (Max players): This server has 8 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): A region code is not set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.

Connect

How do I join cave testing?

Enter client.connect 104.193.180.33:25565 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp8,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust form.
mp8
Max players This server has 8 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it.
cs168909
Build Build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code A region code is not set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded.

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.