The Batcave
Online 157.85.86.153:28015 checked 12m 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 6 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 23d 0h. The 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 The Batcave?
Here are the tags The Batcave lists, which the game's browser uses: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp40 (Max players): Room for 40; ts8 (Group limit): 8 to a team, as the game ships it; v2634 (Protocol): You need protocol 2634 to join, matching your game version; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): Network runs on RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code not set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, matching Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): It sits in Modded: plugins or settings make the difference. You will find its live player count, queue and world creation time in the tags too, displayed at the top here.
Where does The Batcave appear in the lists and filters on Rust Vending Machine?
These Rust Vending Machine lists include The Batcave: Modded Rust servers. It shows under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Settings and rules
What map is in play on The Batcave?
The map on The Batcave is procedural, size 2,500 with seed 50000, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
What rules does The Batcave enforce, and what settings does it run?
No gather rate is given in the name of The Batcave. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the cap here. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Player versus player combat and raiding are on. Plugins or settings change the game, so it is listed under Modded. You will find Oxide plugins running here. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Server details
Where can you find The Batcave?
You will find no region published for The Batcave. A server's stated location is what Rust Vending Machine shows; the actual machine location is not looked up. You can reach it at 157.85.86.153:28015.
What is the uptime like on The Batcave?
The shelves show The Batcave in stock and online right now. By its own uptime report, the last restart was about 6 days 22 hours ago. Across the last 6 days, it was available for 144 of 144 hours, or 100% of the time. Its first record on Rust Vending Machine is dated 6 October 2026.
How well does The Batcave perform?
Server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 211 and never dropped below 146. Up to 29,847 entities were in play, buildings, deployables and the rest of the world combined. At most it drew 3,024 MB of memory. The feel of lag traces back to fps dropping and entities piling up.
Which Rust build is The Batcave running?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what powers The Batcave. The protocol has to line up on your side to join, and Steam does the updating.
Live players
Where does The Batcave sit in the rankings?
The last seven days of player hours place The Batcave at #15,646, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
What is the current player count on The Batcave?
You will find 0 players filling 40 slots in The Batcave as things stand. It peaked at 1 this week, and the average was 0.
Wipe info
How often does The Batcave wipe?
That next wipe for The Batcave is only an estimate, drawn from the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it has now started 7 days 12 hours ago. Wipes once a month are what its tags show.
How to join
What is the way to join The Batcave?
Press F1 in Rust to bring up the console and enter client.connect 157.85.86.153:28015. Alternatively, the Launch Rust option on this page opens Rust via Steam and joins for you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.