hard
Offline 178.158.221.43:28015 checked 4d ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does hard rank against other Rust servers?
Over the past week it ranks #15,452 for player hours, which puts hard in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is hard?
hard is offline at this count; we last saw it 4 days 4 hours ago. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.
Tags
What do the server tags on hard mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags hard publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp2 (Max players): 2 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 hard?
On Rust Population, hard is filed under these lists: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Wipe notes
What is the wipe schedule on hard?
Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of hard's wipes are on record. 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 12 days 4 hours ago.
Settings
Which map does hard run?
hard uses a map the game generates: procedural.
What are the rules and settings on hard?
Nothing in hard's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
About the server
Which version of Rust does hard run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows for hard. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Is hard online, and how reliable is it?
Offline at the moment, hard was last seen 4 days 4 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 1 of 168 hours were online, or 1%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 20 October 2026.
Where is hard located?
Nothing published by hard states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 178.158.221.43:28015 is where it lives.
Getting in
How do I join hard?
Either enter client.connect 178.158.221.43:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.