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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,351habitat unknownfirst seen 7 Oct 2026

A Shockbyte Rust Server

Online 157.85.85.163:20406 checked 10m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,351
top 69%
Last wipe
21d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123406:0015:0000:0008:0017:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040006:0015:0000:0008:0017:0003:00

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 7 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k7 Oct11 Oct16 Oct20 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% 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 Shockbyte Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,351 for player hours, which puts A Shockbyte Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Shockbyte Rust Server?

The count reads 0 players on A Shockbyte Rust Server, which has 40 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on A Shockbyte Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags A Shockbyte Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): The server has 40 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): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 Shockbyte Rust Server?

On Rust Population, A Shockbyte Rust Server 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.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for A Shockbyte Rust Server to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 21 days 13 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does A Shockbyte Rust Server run?

A Shockbyte Rust Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 1,500 with seed 50000. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Nothing in A Shockbyte Rust Server's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does A Shockbyte Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for A Shockbyte Rust Server. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does A Shockbyte Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 239 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 184. Entities peaked at 8,244, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,830 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

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

A Shockbyte Rust Server is up and running at the moment. About 27 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. On 7 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is A Shockbyte Rust Server located?

Nothing published by A Shockbyte Rust Server states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 157.85.85.163:20406.

How to join

How do I join A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 157.85.85.163:20406. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp40
Max players The server has 40 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 This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.