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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,304habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

A Shockbyte Rust Server

Online 157.85.86.169:28870 checked 12m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#12,304
top 55%
Last wipe
19d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123411:0020:0005:0015:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040011:0020:0005:0015:0000:0009:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 55% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

7.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 4

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 9 OctThu 1 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 9 Oct, 00:44 UTC19d ago 3 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 22:26 UTC FW26d ago 4 halved by day 4 7.1 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does A Shockbyte Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place A Shockbyte Rust Server at #12,304, within the top 55% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Of its 40 slots, A Shockbyte Rust Server is using 0 right now. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 2 at the busiest.

Tags

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

What the game's server browser reads from A Shockbyte Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^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. 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?

These Rust Population lists include A Shockbyte Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on A Shockbyte Rust Server?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 4 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 4 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on A Shockbyte Rust Server?

The record holds too few of A Shockbyte Rust Server's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. The world it runs now dates from 19 days 9 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does A Shockbyte Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 50000, generated by the game, is in use on A Shockbyte Rust Server. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

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

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: A Shockbyte Rust Server states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The plugins it runs are Oxide. 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 192 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 145. Entities peaked at 51,820, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,179 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

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

You will find A Shockbyte Rust Server online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 1 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is A Shockbyte Rust Server located?

No region is published by A Shockbyte Rust Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 157.85.86.169:28870 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 157.85.86.169:28870 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp40
Max players 40 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.