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Specimen recordcat. no. 16,958habitat unknownfirst seen 28 Sep 2026

rustys

Offline 176.2.179.176:28015 checked 29d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#16,958
top 71%
Last wipe
29d 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
15k10k15k20k28 Sep29 Sep1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct

Top 71% 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 rustys rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place rustys at #16,958, within the top 71% of all ranked servers.

How busy is rustys?

At this count rustys is offline, with its last sighting 29 days 16 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on rustys mean?

What the game's server browser reads from rustys is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs165982 (Build): The game build is 165982; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 rustys?

rustys appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 is the wipe schedule on rustys?

The record holds too few of rustys'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. Counted from 29 days 17 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does rustys run?

rustys uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on rustys?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: rustys states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does rustys run?

On Windows, rustys runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 165982. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is rustys online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, rustys was last seen 29 days 16 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 28 September 2026.

Where is rustys located?

Nothing published by rustys states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 176.2.179.176:28015.

Getting in

How do I join rustys?

Either enter client.connect 176.2.179.176:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs165982,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs165982
Build The game build is 165982.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.