BlackSheep
Online 135.148.15.130:28942 checked 21m ago
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, measured since 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 72% 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
newest first| 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags & lists
What is the meaning of the tags on BlackSheep?
Here are the tags BlackSheep lists, which the game's browser uses: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp5 (Max players): 5 player slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): You need protocol 2634 to join, matching your game version; cs166652 (Build): It runs on build 166652; ptrak (Networking): Network runs on RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code not set. Tags also carry its current players, its queue and when the world was made, all up top on this page.
On Rust Vending Machine, which lists and filters can you find BlackSheep in?
These Rust Vending Machine lists include BlackSheep: Community Rust servers in stock. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Rules & map
What map is in play on BlackSheep?
BlackSheep runs a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 4372203, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Which settings and rules apply on BlackSheep?
There is no gather rate in the name BlackSheep. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser puts it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
About the server
What is the location of BlackSheep?
There is no region listed for BlackSheep. Rust Vending Machine reports the location a server claims, not where the machine actually sits. You can reach it at 135.148.15.130:28942.
What is the uptime like on BlackSheep?
Open for trade right now: BlackSheep is online. By its own uptime report, the last restart was about 11 days 4 hours ago. Over 7 full days, the shelves were stocked for 144 of 168 hours (86%). Its first record on Rust Vending Machine is dated 3 October 2026.
Is BlackSheep lag-free?
Server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 224 and never dropped below 204. At its peak it held 29,558 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The highest memory reading was 3,723 MB. What players call lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
What Rust version does BlackSheep run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what powers BlackSheep. To get in, your game must match the protocol; Steam keeps that updated.
Population
How does BlackSheep compare to other Rust servers in the rankings?
Over the last seven days BlackSheep ranks #15,923 on player hours, among the top 72% of all ranked servers.
What is the current player count on BlackSheep?
BlackSheep is carrying 0 players on 5 slots at the moment. Over the last seven days you would have seen 0 players on average.
Wipe schedule
On what schedule does BlackSheep wipe?
Too few wipes of BlackSheep are recorded to tell what its rhythm is. When the monthly force wipe arrives on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, every Rust server wipes. The world it has now started 11 days 7 hours ago.
Join the server
What steps do you take to join BlackSheep?
Press F1 in Rust to bring up the console and enter client.connect 135.148.15.130:28942. Alternatively, the Launch Rust option on this page opens Rust via Steam and joins for you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
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.