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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,404habitat unknownfirst seen 25 Oct 2026

Arena Rust | Tailscale

Offline 104.198.8.97:28015 checked 2d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 20
= 1 player
5% full
7-day average
1
peak 1
Rank
#12,404
top 56%
Last wipe
2d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct

Top 56% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does Arena Rust | Tailscale rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #12,404 for player hours, which puts Arena Rust | Tailscale in the top 56% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Arena Rust | Tailscale?

Arena Rust | Tailscale is offline at this count; we last saw it 2 days 17 hours ago. Averaged over seven days, it drew 1 players and reached a peak of 1.

Tags

What do the server tags on Arena Rust | Tailscale mean?

These are the tags Arena Rust | Tailscale publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp20 (Max players): You can join up to 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Arena Rust | Tailscale?

On Rust Population, Arena Rust | Tailscale is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Arena Rust | Tailscale?

The record holds too few of Arena Rust | Tailscale's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. Counted from 2 days 19 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Arena Rust | Tailscale run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on Arena Rust | Tailscale.

What are the rules and settings on Arena Rust | Tailscale?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Arena Rust | Tailscale states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Arena Rust | Tailscale run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Arena Rust | Tailscale uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is Arena Rust | Tailscale online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Arena Rust | Tailscale was last seen 2 days 17 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 2 full days, 0 out of 48 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 25 October 2026.

Where is Arena Rust | Tailscale located?

Nothing published by Arena Rust | Tailscale states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 104.198.8.97:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Arena Rust | Tailscale?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 104.198.8.97:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp20
Max players You can join up to 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.