The Sandbox
Offline 137.83.97.27:28015 checked 11d ago
- Wipedunder 6 hours
- Fillingthe first day
- Peakthe first days
- Settledlater on
- Due againnext wipe close
Players, performance and rank
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 60% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
every wipe as a delivery, newest first- 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
- [EU] Builders Sanctuary 3.0 Creative | Sandbox | Minigames | 138 / 999
- [NA] Builders Sanctuary 3.0 Creative | Sandbox | Minigames | 31 / 999
- [AU] Rusticated.com - Creative Sandbox | Build | Never Wipes 95 / 150
- Atlas // CSL - Ranked | Battlefield | Aimtrain | Scrims | FFA 63 / 100
- AQRUX RUST BUILD | CREATIVE | SANDBOX 50 / 100
- KoalaKopters - Minicopter / Helicopter Training|Arena|Dogfight 19 / 100
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Population
What is the ranking of The Sandbox against other Rust servers?
In the top 60% of all ranked servers sits The Sandbox, at #12,967 on hours played over seven days.
Is The Sandbox busy at the moment?
At the moment The Sandbox is offline, having last been seen 11 days 11 hours ago.
Rules and settings
On what map does The Sandbox take place?
The game generates the procedural map that The Sandbox runs.
What settings and rules should you know for The Sandbox?
You will not find a gather rate in the name of The Sandbox. Up to 8 players can join a group, the default for the game. You get survival here, gather and build and raid: the standard game. Raiding and PvP are both on. Plugins or settings alter the game on this one, which sits under Modded in the server browser. Plugins come from Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.
About the server
What is the location of The Sandbox?
There is no region published for The Sandbox. The location shown on Rust Wipe Tracker is the one a server gives; where the machine stands is not looked up. The address to connect to is 137.83.97.27:28015.
What is the uptime of The Sandbox, and is it online?
The Sandbox is offline at the moment, with the last sighting 11 days 11 hours ago. It was up 0 of 168 hours over the last 7 full days, 0% of the time. It was first seen by Rust Wipe Tracker on 16 October 2026.
What Rust version is The Sandbox using?
On Windows, The Sandbox runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles that update for you.
Wipe times
How often does The Sandbox wipe, and at what times?
Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of The Sandbox's wipes are on record. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when all Rust servers wipe together, once a month. The world it is running was made 26 days 6 hours.
Tags and listings
Where does The Sandbox appear in Rust Wipe Tracker lists and filters?
You will find The Sandbox on the following Rust Wipe Tracker lists: Modded Rust servers and Rust build servers. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
How should you read the tags on The Sandbox?
gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is the default; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634 is required; a different version can't join; cs166494 (Build): Build number: 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles networking, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is installed here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded are the tags The Sandbox publishes, and the server browser takes them as read. You will find its live player count, its queue and its world's age in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
How to join
How do you connect to The Sandbox?
Use Launch Rust on this page to join, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you, or start Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 137.83.97.27:28015.