The Sandbox
Offline 137.83.97.27:28015 checked 11d ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 60% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on The Sandbox?
Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of The Sandbox's wipes are on record. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe resets every Rust server. The world in play now was made 26 days 2 hours ago.
Population
How busy is The Sandbox?
The Sandbox went quiet 11 days 7 hours ago and is offline right now.
How does The Sandbox rank against other Rust servers?
Ranked #12,967 on seven-day player hours, The Sandbox is in the top 60% of all ranked servers.
Rules and settings
Which map does The Sandbox run?
The game generates the procedural map on The Sandbox.
What are the rules and settings on The Sandbox?
A gather rate is not given in the name The Sandbox. Groups can contain up to 8 players, the default in the game. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid their bases. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins are in use. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Sandbox run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what The Sandbox runs. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.
Is The Sandbox online, and how reliable is it?
The Sandbox is down just now; the last sighting was 11 days 7 hours ago. It was up 0 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 0% of the time. The first record of it on Rust Heatmap is 16 October 2026.
Where is The Sandbox located?
A region is not published for The Sandbox. A server says where it is, and Rust Heatmap shows that. The machine's actual location is not looked up. 137.83.97.27:28015 is its address.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Sandbox?
These Rust Heatmap lists include The Sandbox: Rust build servers and Modded Rust servers, by live population. These are the filters that return it on the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Sandbox mean?
These are the tags The Sandbox publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp10 (Max players): The slot count is 10; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team: the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): To join, run the same version: game protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): This build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^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. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.
Connect
How do I join The Sandbox?
Enter client.connect 137.83.97.27:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.