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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,351habitat unknownfirst seen 21 Oct 2026

A Rust Server

Offline 133.203.220.97:8976 checked 4d ago

pve

Measurements

Players now
2/ 20
= 1 player
10% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#14,351
top 65%
Last wipe
7d 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
15k10k15k20k21 Oct22 Oct24 Oct25 Oct27 Oct28 Oct

Top 65% 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

Player counts

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, A Rust Server places at #14,351, within the top 65% of ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

At this count A Rust Server is offline, with its last sighting 4 days 5 hours ago. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 2.

Tags

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from A Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp20 (Max players): You can join up to 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger. 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 A Rust Server?

These Rust Population lists include A Rust Server: Community servers, field-listed and PvE servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of A Rust Server's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 7 days 18 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

A Rust Server uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: A Rust Server states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. pve is what it runs, no player combat. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for A Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is A Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, A Rust Server was last seen 4 days 5 hours ago. It was up 1% of the time over the last 6 full days, 2 out of 144 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 21 October 2026.

Where is A Rust Server located?

A region is not published by A Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 133.203.220.97:8976.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 133.203.220.97:8976. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

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

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp20
Max players You can join up to 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger.

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.