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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,344habitat unknownfirst seen 28 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Offline 162.43.28.177:28015 checked 3h ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,344
top 69%
Last wipe
26d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123400:0009:0017:0002:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040000:0009:0017:0002:0010:0020:00

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 28 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
15k10k15k20k28 Sep3 Oct7 Oct19 Oct23 Oct28 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.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

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
Fri 2 Oct, 07:11 UTC26d ago 1 – running 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 #15,344, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Rust Server is offline at this count; we last saw it 3 hours ago. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and 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; mp10 (Max players): The server has 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166586 (Build): This server runs game build 166586; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded. 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 Server?

On Rust Population, Rust Server is filed under these lists: 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 Rust Server?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record holds too few of Rust Server's wipes to show a 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 26 days 16 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

Rust Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 50000. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of 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. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Linux for Rust Server. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 209 server fps, with a low of 128. The entity count reached 48,393: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 2,670 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Rust Server was last seen 3 hours ago. About 10 days 21 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 28 September 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 162.43.28.177:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 162.43.28.177:28015. 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp10
Max players The server has 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166586
Build This server runs game build 166586.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so 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.