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Specimen recordcat. no. 9,360habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Online 162.43.1.195:28015 checked 11m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#9,360
top 42%
Last wipe
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123403:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 42% 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.

3.8 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctMon 28 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, 9 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 23:36 UTC FW27d ago 1 – running 0
Mon 28 Sep, 05:16 UTC30d ago 0 – 3.8 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

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Rust Server places at #9,360, within the top 42% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Rust Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 50 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 1.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Rust Server is this set of tags: 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; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs 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. 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?

On Rust Population, 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 notes

What does wipe day look like on Rust Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 0 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 9 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to show its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. Counted from 27 days 2 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

The map on Rust Server is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 50001. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

Nothing in Rust Server's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

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

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 217 server fps, with a low of 184. Up to 46,435 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,375 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 6 days 1 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

Nothing published by Rust Server states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 162.43.1.195:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 162.43.1.195:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,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.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build This server runs 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.

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.