Alone & Afraid
Online OC 116.90.73.233:28015 checked 10m ago
Measurements
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
Top 10% of all ranked servers, top 28% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 10 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 22 Oct, 21:48 UTC4d ago | 7 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 15 Oct, 10:24 UTC12d ago | 7 | halved by day 3 | 7.5 days | 1 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:22 UTC FW25d ago | 9 | halved by day 5 | 13.5 days | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 21:24 UTC32d ago | 12 | halved by day 3 | 7 days | 0 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 21:28 UTC39d ago | 8 | halved by day 4 | 7 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does Alone & Afraid rank against other Rust servers?
Seven-day player hours put Alone & Afraid at #2,176, or #59 in Oceania, inside the top 10% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Alone & Afraid?
The count reads 2 players on Alone & Afraid, which has 50 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 2 players and a peak of 7. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 08:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.
Tags
What do the server tags on Alone & Afraid mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags Alone & Afraid publishes: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts0 (Group limit): The team system is turned off; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^b (Biweekly): A wipe happens once a fortnight; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore mode reduces the helpers and makes survival harsher; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here; OC (Oceania): In the server browser it appears under Oceania. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Alone & Afraid?
Alone & Afraid appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Oceania Rust servers, counted and Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Oceania; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last week.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on Alone & Afraid?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 8 players. Peak came 10 hours into the latest wipe. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In those that did not hold, the fall below half came by day 3.5.
What is the wipe schedule on Alone & Afraid?
Counted by rhythm, Alone & Afraid wipes every 3 weeks on Thursday at 21:48 UTC. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 4 days 22 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of one wipe every two weeks.
Map and rules
Which map does Alone & Afraid run?
The map on Alone & Afraid is procedural, made by the game at size 4,250.
What are the rules and settings on Alone & Afraid?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Alone & Afraid states none. The group limit goes unstated. You get hardcore here, Facepunch's most demanding mode. You can raid and fight other players here. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. The plugins it runs are Carbon. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Alone & Afraid run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Alone & Afraid uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does Alone & Afraid run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 30 server fps, with a low of 30. The entity count reached 110,021: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 6,967 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Is Alone & Afraid online, and how reliable is it?
You will find Alone & Afraid online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 6 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.
Where is Alone & Afraid located?
The OC tag is how Alone & Afraid places itself in Oceania. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 116.90.73.233:28015.
Getting in
How do I join Alone & Afraid?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 116.90.73.233:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.