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Specimen recordcat. no. 6,569habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Crafters

Online 156.38.153.242:10070 checked 7m ago

moddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
1/ 60
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#6,569
top 29%
Last wipe
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
7d 2h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75117:0002:0011:0021:0006:0015:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

025507510017:0002:0011:0021:0006:0015:00

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 29% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 2h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 2h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 39 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:46 UTC FW27d ago 2 – running 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does Crafters rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Crafters at #6,569, within the top 29% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Crafters?

Crafters holds 1 players at the moment, out of 60 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 15:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on Crafters mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Crafters is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp60 (Max players): The server has 60 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^c (Creative): A sandbox: build what you like and skip the gathering; ^k (Build server): Use this server to practise and design bases; ^p (PvE): Other players are not a threat; the danger comes from the world; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Crafters?

Crafters appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted, Build and creative servers, Rust creative servers, counted live and PvE servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Creative ^c, Build server ^k, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Crafters?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 2 players. Peak came 39 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Crafters?

The force wipe is the only wipe Crafters takes, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 22 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Crafters run?

Crafters uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 1337420. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Crafters?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Crafters states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs build & creative, building in a sandbox, with nothing to gather. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Crafters run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Crafters uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Crafters run smoothly?

It ran at 76 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 10. Entities peaked at 112,767, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,354 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Crafters online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Crafters is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is Crafters located?

A region is not published by Crafters. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 156.38.153.242:10070 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Crafters?

Either enter client.connect 156.38.153.242:10070 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. You can find its website at https://crafters.rusters.io/.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp60,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^c,^k,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp60
Max players The server has 60 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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Gameplay

^c
Creative A sandbox: build what you like and skip the gathering.
^k
Build server Use this server to practise and design bases.
^p
PvE Other players are not a threat; the danger comes from the world.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.