Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 16,757habitat unknownfirst seen 30 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Offline 161.184.166.42:28015 checked 28d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#16,757
top 70%
Last wipe
28d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

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 Sep1 Oct3 Oct4 Oct6 Oct7 Oct

Top 70% 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

Population

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #16,757, within the top 70% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

We have no live count for Rust Server right now. It was last seen 28 days 2 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 Rust Server?

Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record holds too few of 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 28 days 2 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

The map on Rust Server is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. 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. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux for Rust Server. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Rust Server was last seen 28 days 2 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 30 September 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 161.184.166.42:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 161.184.166.42:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.