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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,351habitat unknownfirst seen 12 Oct 2026

Apostles

Online 169.155.121.54:25565 checked 11m ago

monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,351
top 69%
Last wipe
16d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 13h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123406:0015:0000:0009:0019:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040006:0015:0000:0009:0019:0004:00

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 12 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k12 Oct15 Oct19 Oct22 Oct26 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 13h. The 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 Apostles rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Apostles places at #15,351, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is Apostles?

The count reads 0 players on Apostles, which has 40 slots. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Apostles mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Apostles publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): You can join up to 40 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; cs167584 (Build): The game build is 167584; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. 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 Apostles?

Apostles appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Apostles?

The next wipe for Apostles is estimated from the force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. Counted from 16 days 7 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does Apostles run?

Apostles uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 1. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Apostles?

Nothing in Apostles's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Apostles run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584 on Linux is what Apostles uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Apostles run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 216 server fps, with a low of 149. Up to 47,475 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,521 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Apostles online, and how reliable is it?

Apostles is up and running at the moment. About 16 days 6 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 12 October 2026.

Where is Apostles located?

No region is published by Apostles. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 169.155.121.54:25565.

How to join

How do I join Apostles?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 169.155.121.54:25565; 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?,v2634,^m,^v,gmrust,cs167584,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp40
Max players You can join up to 40 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.
cs167584
Build The game build is 167584.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

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.