Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,099habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Sep 2026

rust-server

Offline 176.0.51.177:28015 checked 38d ago

moddedcarbon

Measurements

Players now
2/ 5
= 1 player
40% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,099
no region published
Last wipe
52d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep23 Sep24 Sep26 Sep27 Sep
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

Population

How does rust-server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, rust-server places at #12,099, within the top – of ranked servers.

How busy is rust-server?

At this count rust-server is offline, with its last sighting 38 days 19 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on rust-server mean?

These are the tags rust-server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): The server has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs163207 (Build): The game build is 163207; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use. 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 rust-server?

rust-server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

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. The world it runs now dates from 52 days 12 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does rust-server run?

rust-server uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on rust-server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: rust-server states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Carbon running as plugins. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does rust-server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Windows for rust-server. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is rust-server online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, rust-server was last seen 38 days 19 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 20 September 2026.

Where is rust-server located?

A region is not published by rust-server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 176.0.51.177:28015.

How to join

How do I join rust-server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 176.0.51.177:28015; 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players The server has 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join.
cs163207
Build The game build is 163207.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use.

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.