The Hill Top
Online 81.16.176.157:7056 checked 10m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 47% 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, 2 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 7 Oct, 09:06 UTC7d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 04:19 UTC12d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 5.2 days | 0 |
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 Hill Top?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp40 (Max players): 40 player slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game version must line up with protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): Build 167781; ptrak (Networking): This is the standard RakNet layer the game uses; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): It sits in Modded: plugins or settings make the difference is what The Hill Top tags itself with, and the server browser takes note. You will find its live player count, queue and world creation time in the tags too, displayed at the top here.
On Rust Vending Machine, which lists and filters can you find The Hill Top in?
These Rust Vending Machine lists include The Hill Top: Modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Settings and rules
What map is in play on The Hill Top?
The map on The Hill Top is procedural, size 4,250 with seed 1, 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 The Hill Top enforce, and what settings does it run?
No gather rate is given in the name of The Hill Top. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the cap here. This server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Player versus player combat and raiding are on. Plugins or settings change the game, so it is listed under Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, switched on.
Server info
Where can you find The Hill Top?
You will find no region published for The Hill Top. Rust Vending Machine reports the location a server claims, not where the machine actually sits. You can reach it at 81.16.176.157:7056.
What is the uptime like on The Hill Top?
Open for trade right now: The Hill Top is online. The uptime counter points to a restart about 13 hours ago. Across the last 7 days, it was available for 159 of 168 hours, or 95% of the time. It came to Rust Vending Machine's notice on 13 September 2026.
What is the performance like on The Hill Top?
Over the last 48 hours the average server fps was 97, with a low of 52. Up to 103,740 entities were in play, buildings, deployables and the rest of the world combined. The highest memory reading was 3,830 MB. What players call lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
What Rust version does The Hill Top run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what powers The Hill Top. To get in, your game must match the protocol; Steam keeps that updated.
Player count
Where does The Hill Top sit in the rankings?
Over the last seven days The Hill Top ranks #10,512 on player hours, among the top 47% of all ranked servers.
What is the current player count on The Hill Top?
The Hill Top is carrying 0 players on 40 slots at the moment. The seven-day average stands at 0 players, peaking at 1. The last 48 hours peaked at 21:00 UTC, when it averaged 0 players.
Wipe info
When does The Hill Top wipe?
The wipes of The Hill Top on record are too few to show 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 7 days 10 hours ago.
How does The Hill Top handle wipe day?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. On the latest wipe, 2 hours after it began, the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 1 in the wipes that did not hold.
Getting in
What steps do you take to join The Hill Top?
In the Rust console (F1), type client.connect 81.16.176.157:7056. You can also press Launch Rust on this page, which opens Steam and connects.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2634
cs167781
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.