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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,327habitat unknownfirst seen 30 Sep 2026

Rust & Stains

Online 158.36.191.191:28015 checked 10m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ ?
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,327
top 69%
Last wipe
18d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123418:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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
15k10k15k20k30 Sep6 Oct12 Oct17 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% 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.

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sun 11 OctWed 30 Sep
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
Sun 11 Oct, 11:48 UTC18d ago 1 – running 0
Wed 30 Sep, 20:25 UTC28d ago 1+1 queue halved by day 1 10.6 days 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 Rust & Stains rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,327 for player hours, which puts Rust & Stains in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust & Stains?

The count for Rust & Stains stands at 0 players right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust & Stains mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust & Stains publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp0 (Max players): You can join up to 0 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Rust & Stains?

These Rust Population lists include Rust & Stains: 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 schedule

What does wipe day look like on Rust & Stains?

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

What is the wipe schedule on Rust & Stains?

The record holds too few of Rust & Stains'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 18 days 6 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust & Stains run?

Rust & Stains uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Rust & Stains?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rust & Stains states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust & Stains run?

On Linux, Rust & Stains runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is Rust & Stains online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust & Stains is online. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 30 September 2026.

Where is Rust & Stains located?

No region is published by Rust & Stains. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 158.36.191.191:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust & Stains?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 158.36.191.191:28015. 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 mp0,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp0
Max players You can join up to 0 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167398
Build The game build is 167398.
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.