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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,979habitat unknownfirst seen 23 Oct 2026

A Shockbyte Rust Server

Online 157.85.88.157:28697 checked 7m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 40
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#5,979
top 27%
Last wipe
1h ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75108:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040008:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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 23 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
12k4k6k8k23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 27% 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.

6.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

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 1, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 06:33 UTC1h ago – – running 1
Fri 23 Oct, 01:44 UTC6d ago 1 – – 1

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?

The last seven days of player hours place A Shockbyte Rust Server at #5,979, within the top 27% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Shockbyte Rust Server?

The count reads 1 players on A Shockbyte Rust Server, which has 40 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 1. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 05:00 UTC, when an average of 1 players were on.

Lists and tags

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

These are the tags A Shockbyte Rust Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): You can join up to 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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 A Shockbyte Rust Server?

A Shockbyte Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.

Wipe schedule

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

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 2 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

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 1 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does A Shockbyte Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 from seed 584293, 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?

No gather rate appears in the name of A Shockbyte Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. You will find Oxide running as plugins. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

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?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 221 server fps, with a low of 167. Entities peaked at 88,822, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,113 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. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 20 hours ago. Over the last 5 full days, 119 of 120 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 23 October 2026.

Where is A Shockbyte Rust Server located?

No region is published by A Shockbyte Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 157.85.88.157:28697.

Getting in

How do I join A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 157.85.88.157:28697. 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,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players You can join up to 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.