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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,479habitat unknownfirst seen 29 Sep 2026

A Rust Server

Offline 176.9.60.249:2456 checked 22d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 40
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,479
top 69%
Last wipe
22d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes 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
15k10k15k20k29 Sep2 Oct4 Oct7 Oct9 Oct12 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.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 23:21 UTC22d ago 1 – running 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?

The last seven days of player hours place A Rust Server at #15,479, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

A Rust Server is offline at this count; we last saw it 22 days ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags A Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): The server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 A Rust Server?

A Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the 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, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for A 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. Counted from 22 days 1 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does A Rust Server run?

A Rust Server uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 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?

We last saw A Rust Server 22 days ago, and it is offline now. 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 29 September 2026.

Where is A Rust Server located?

A region is not published by A Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 176.9.60.249:2456 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 176.9.60.249:2456 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp40
Max players The server has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166652
Build The game build is 166652.
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.