[UK] The Circle
Online 188.40.106.248:28135 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 25 Sep. 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
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 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep, 12:53 UTC18d ago | 1 | – | running | 1 |
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.
Lists and tags
What is the meaning of the tags on [UK] The Circle?
The server browser reads these tags that [UK] The Circle publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, the standard way; mp10 (Max players): The cap is 10; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the standard game limit; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: your game must match to get in; cs165217 (Build): Build 165217; ptrak (Networking): This is the standard RakNet layer the game uses; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^v (Vanilla): Rust as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules untouched; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): It sits in Modded: plugins or settings make the difference. Player numbers, queue length and world age are tagged as well, and they sit at the top of this page.
Where does [UK] The Circle appear in the lists and filters on Rust Vending Machine?
The Rust Vending Machine lists that feature [UK] The Circle are: EU Rust servers in stock and Modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Settings and rules
Which map is currently on [UK] The Circle?
The map on [UK] The Circle is procedural, size 3,000 with seed 707334229, generated by the game. The map is the same for a given size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What rules does [UK] The Circle enforce, and what settings does it run?
There is no gather rate in the name [UK] The Circle. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. You play survival, 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. It is vanilla by its own description: rust as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules untouched. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, switched on.
Server details
What location is [UK] The Circle in?
The name of [UK] The Circle points to Europe, even without a region tag. Rust Vending Machine displays the location a server gives and does not look up the machine's true place. Find it at this address: 188.40.106.248:28135.
How stable is [UK] The Circle, and is it currently online?
You can grab [UK] The Circle: it is online as we speak. Its uptime figure puts the last restart at roughly 14 days 15 hours ago. Over 7 full days, the shelves were stocked for 168 of 168 hours (100%). The first sighting of it on Rust Vending Machine was 25 September 2026.
What is the performance like on [UK] The Circle?
Over the last 48 hours the average server fps was 113, with a low of 73. Up to 47,430 entities were in play, buildings, deployables and the rest of the world combined. At most it drew 3,831 MB of memory. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps plus a growing entity count.
What Rust version does [UK] The Circle run?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux is what powers [UK] The Circle. The protocol has to line up on your side to join, and Steam does the updating.
Population
What is [UK] The Circle's rank among Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place [UK] The Circle at #15,919, in the top 72% of all ranked servers.
What is the current player count on [UK] The Circle?
[UK] The Circle is carrying 0 players on 10 slots at the moment. The seven-day average stands at 0 players.
Wipe details
When does [UK] The Circle wipe?
There are not yet enough recorded wipes from [UK] The Circle to reveal its rhythm. The next force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. It has been running its current world since 18 days ago.
What happens on [UK] The Circle on wipe day?
An average of 1 players turned up at the peak of its recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 1 hours in.
How to join
What steps do you take to join [UK] The Circle?
Press F1 in Rust to bring up the console and enter client.connect 188.40.106.248:28135. Alternatively, the Launch Rust option on this page opens Rust via Steam and joins for you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^v,gmrust,cs165217,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp10
ts8
v2633
cs165217
ptrak
$r?
Difficulty
^v
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.