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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,516habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Sep 2026

Rust NPC Server

Offline 147.78.241.178:28015 checked 37d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 8
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,516
no region published
Last wipe
51d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep23 Sep24 Sep26 Sep27 Sep
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 Rust NPC Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,516 for player hours, which puts Rust NPC Server in the top – of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust NPC Server?

At this count Rust NPC Server is offline, with its last sighting 37 days 10 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust NPC Server mean?

These are the tags Rust NPC Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp8 (Max players): You can join up to 8 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect; cs163207 (Build): Game build: 163207; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Rust NPC Server?

Rust NPC Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Rust NPC Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Rust NPC 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. 51 days 2 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust NPC Server run?

The map on Rust NPC Server is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on Rust NPC Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rust NPC Server states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat off: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust NPC Server run?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Windows is what Rust NPC Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

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

Currently offline, Rust NPC Server was last seen 37 days 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 20 September 2026.

Where is Rust NPC Server located?

No region is published by Rust NPC Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 147.78.241.178:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Rust NPC Server?

Either enter client.connect 147.78.241.178:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp8,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp8
Max players You can join up to 8 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect.
cs163207
Build Game build: 163207.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.