Drops
Online EU 185.180.2.13:28298 checked 12m 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, measured since 26 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 38% of all ranked servers, top 73% in EU. 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 Drops?
Drops has too few wipes on record yet for its rhythm to show. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 3 days 1 hours ago the server made the world it is on now.
Population
How busy is Drops?
Drops currently has 0 of its 30 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 0 players, peaking at 2. Look at 15:00 UTC for the last 48 hours: that hour averaged 1 players.
How does Drops rank against other Rust servers?
Top 38% of ranked servers and #2,130 in Europe: that is Drops at #8,526 for player hours over seven days.
Settings and rules
Which map does Drops run?
A procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 26830, generated by the game, runs on Drops. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Drops?
The name Drops does not specify a gather rate. Groups can contain up to 8 players, the default in the game. pve is the game mode, no combat against other players. In the server browser it is Modded, meaning plugins or settings modify the game. Plugin count: Oxide. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
Server details
Which version of Rust does Drops run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Drops runs. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.
Is Drops online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Drops shows as online. Its reported uptime dates the last restart to about 12 hours ago. 47 of 48 hours up over the last 2 full days, which is 98%. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 26 October 2026.
Where is Drops located?
The EU tag is how Drops lists itself in Europe. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. To connect, use 185.180.2.13:28298.
Does Drops run smoothly?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 20; it never dropped below 20. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 103,289 entities. At its peak it held 3,628 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Drops?
EU Rust servers, busiest first, Modded Rust servers, by live population and Best Rust PvE servers are the Rust Heatmap lists that Drops fits. These are the filters that return it on the list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
What do the server tags on Drops mean?
These are the tags Drops publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp30 (Max players): This server has 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^p (PvE): The world provides the danger, since players do not fight each other; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Listed as Modded, since settings or plugins change the game; EU (Europe): Europe is where the server browser puts it. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.
How to join
How do I join Drops?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 185.180.2.13:28298. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.