snowball
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 1/ 1 100% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪n/a no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak –
- Rank
- #13,361 no region published
- Rank · 7d ago
- – not ranked a week ago
- Last wipe
- 37d ago no schedule published
- Next wipe
- – no wipe seen yet
- Group limit
- 8 8, the default
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 1 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- – Procedural Map
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026 no hostname published
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestWipe schedule
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| # | Server | Last | Chg 24h | Players over the last 24 hours24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 406 on average | 275/250 | ▼−46−14.4% | |
| 2 | Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 355 on average | 158/200 | ▼−21−11.7% | |
| 3 | Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 336 on average | 212/250 | ▲+35+19.8% | |
| 4 | Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 333 on average | 157/200 | ▼−25−13.7% | |
| 5 | Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average | 23/250 | ▼−16−41.6% | |
| 6 | Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 281 on average | 121/150 | ▼−47−27.9% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer Rules
How is snowball configured in terms of rules and settings?
No gather rate is given in the name of snowball. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC is active.
Which map is played on snowball?
snowball uses a procedural map, which the game generates.
Population
What position does snowball hold in the server rankings?
For the last seven days, snowball holds rank #13,361 on player hours, in the top – of all ranked servers.
How many players does snowball have?
Right now, snowball is offline; the last sighting was 27 days 12 hours ago.
Wipe Schedule
When does snowball schedule its wipes?
There are too few wipes on record for snowball to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe applies to every Rust server. The next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 37 days 23 hours ago the current world was created.
Server Overview
What is the location of snowball?
No region is published by snowball. Where a server says it is, Rust Analytics shows; where the machine stands, it does not look up. 46.138.15.179:28015 is its address.
snowball is on which Rust version?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794 on Windows is what snowball runs. Your game needs the same protocol to get in; Steam takes care of the update.
How reliable is snowball and is it currently online?
Offline at this moment: snowball. Last seen 27 days 12 hours ago. 7 full days have passed with 0% uptime, 0 of 168 hours. The earliest Rust Analytics saw it was 13 September 2026.
Tags and Rankings
What is the meaning of the tags on snowball?
These tags are published by snowball and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust format; mp1 (Max players): It holds 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team: the default setting, unchanged; v2633 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2633 to connect; cs163794 (Build): It runs build 163794; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the network layer the game ships with; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent. Also in the tags and at the top of this page: current players, queue and world creation time.
On Rust Analytics, which lists and filters feature snowball?
The following Rust Analytics lists feature snowball: Rust community servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
How to Join
What steps do I take to join snowball?
Type client.connect 46.138.15.179:28015 after pressing F1 in Rust to open the console. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp1
ts8
v2633
cs163794
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.