Matt and Friends
Offline 73.20.18.177:28015 checked 15d 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 29 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 71% 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.
Lists and tags
How should you read the tags on Matt and Friends?
The server browser reads these tags that Matt and Friends publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp4 (Max players): Room for 4; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the standard game limit; v2633 (Protocol): You need protocol 2633 to join, matching your game version; cs165217 (Build): Build 165217; ptrak (Networking): Network runs on RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded is its category, with plugins or settings changing the game. Player numbers, queue length and world age are tagged as well, and they sit at the top of this page.
On Rust Vending Machine, which lists and filters can you find Matt and Friends in?
The Rust Vending Machine lists that feature Matt and Friends are: Modded Rust servers. It shows under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Map and rules
What map is in play on Matt and Friends?
The map on Matt and Friends is procedural, size 3,000 with seed 8675309, 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 Matt and Friends enforce, and what settings does it run?
The name of Matt and Friends gives no gather rate. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the cap here. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Player versus player combat and raiding are on. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, switched on.
Server details
What location is Matt and Friends in?
There is no region listed for Matt and Friends. Rust Vending Machine reports the location a server claims, not where the machine actually sits. Find it at this address: 73.20.18.177:28015.
How reliable is Matt and Friends, and is it online now?
No stock at present: Matt and Friends is offline, last seen 15 days 4 hours ago. 0 of 168 hours online over the last 7 full days, or 0% uptime. The first sighting of it on Rust Vending Machine was 29 September 2026.
What Rust version does Matt and Friends run?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows is what powers Matt and Friends. To get in, your game must match the protocol; Steam keeps that updated.
Population
Where does Matt and Friends sit in the rankings?
The last seven days of player hours place Matt and Friends at #16,908, in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
What is the current player count on Matt and Friends?
At the moment Matt and Friends is offline, with a last sighting 15 days 4 hours ago.
Wipe details
How often does Matt and Friends wipe?
Too few wipes of Matt and Friends 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 62 days 10 hours ago.
Join the server
What is the way to join Matt and Friends?
Press F1 in Rust to bring up the console and enter client.connect 73.20.18.177:28015. Alternatively, the Launch Rust option on this page opens Rust via Steam and joins for you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp4,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp4
ts8
v2633
cs165217
ptrak
$r?
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.