Build Contest
Online 64.20.40.98:27058 checked 10m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
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| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 22:02 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on Build Contest?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on Build Contest?
Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of Build Contest's wipes are on record. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 4 hours ago.
Population
How busy is Build Contest?
Of 40 slots on Build Contest, 0 are in use right now. A seven-day average of 0 players.
How does Build Contest rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put Build Contest at #15,353, in the top 69% of ranked servers.
Rules and settings
Which map does Build Contest run?
Build Contest runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 1337, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map. The map is called Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on Build Contest?
A gather rate is not given in the name Build Contest. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. The server runs build & creative, no gathering; sandbox building. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins run on this server. Anti-cheat: Valve's VAC is on.
Location and uptime
Which version of Rust does Build Contest run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Build Contest runs. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is Build Contest online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Build Contest shows as online. About 3 hours ago is when it last restarted, by its own uptime figure. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 13 September 2026.
Where is Build Contest located?
A region is not published for Build Contest. A server says where it is, and Rust Heatmap shows that. The machine's actual location is not looked up. To connect, use 64.20.40.98:27058.
Does Build Contest run smoothly?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 40; it never dropped below 40. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 66,163 entities. The highest memory use was 2,207 MB. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Build Contest?
The Rust Heatmap lists that Build Contest fits are: Rust build servers, Rust servers tagged creative and Modded Rust servers, by live population. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on Build Contest mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags Build Contest publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp40 (Max players): This server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2635 (Protocol): To join, run the same version: game protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^c (Creative): Build what you like with no gathering, in this creative sandbox; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Settings or plugins alter the game, which puts it 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 Build Contest?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 64.20.40.98:27058. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. The server's site sits at https://discord.com/invite/Yk2bBhmVwP.