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Specimen recordcat. no. 16,599habitat unknownfirst seen 1 Oct 2026

A Rust Server

Offline 170.253.47.189:2222 checked 28d ago

vanilla

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#16,599
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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 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

Player counts

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, A Rust Server places at #16,599, within the top 70% of ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

At this count A Rust Server is offline, with its last sighting 28 days 10 hours ago.

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: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166461 (Build): Game build: 166461; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^v (Vanilla): No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. 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 and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of A Rust Server's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 28 days 10 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on A Rust Server.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: A Rust Server states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The server describes itself as vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166461 on Linux for A Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

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

Offline at the moment, A Rust Server was last seen 28 days 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 1 October 2026.

Where is A Rust Server located?

No region is published by A Rust Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 170.253.47.189:2222 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join A Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 170.253.47.189:2222. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^v,gmvanilla,cs166461,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp40
Max players 40 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166461
Build Game build: 166461.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.