Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,323habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

A Rust Server

Online 168.100.163.41:28015 checked 12m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,323
top 69%
Last wipe
23d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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 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.

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 5 OctFri 18 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 16:11 UTC23d ago 0 – running 0
Fri 18 Sep, 16:53 UTC40d ago 0 – 17 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

Population

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, A Rust Server places at #15,323, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

The count reads 0 players on A Rust Server, which has 40 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

These are the tags A Rust Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): The server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 Rust Server?

These Rust Population lists include A Rust Server: 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 A Rust Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 0 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for A 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. 23 days 19 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 1337, generated by the game, is in use on A Rust Server. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

Nothing in A Rust Server's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

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

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 30 server fps, with a low of 29. The entity count reached 47,533: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 2,043 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is A Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

A Rust Server is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 2 days 22 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is A Rust Server located?

Nothing published by A Rust Server states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 168.100.163.41:28015.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 168.100.163.41:28015; 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp40
Max players The server has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 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.