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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,323habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

rust.luthor.consulting

Online 178.18.252.99:28015 checked 2h ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,323
top 69%
Last wipe
43d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 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.

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 15 Sep, 16:05 UTC43d ago 0 – 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 rust.luthor.consulting rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place rust.luthor.consulting at #15,323, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is rust.luthor.consulting?

The count reads 0 players on rust.luthor.consulting, which has 50 slots. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Tags

What do the server tags on rust.luthor.consulting mean?

These are the tags rust.luthor.consulting publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): The game mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs163794 (Build): This server runs game build 163794; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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.luthor.consulting?

On Rust Population, rust.luthor.consulting is filed under these lists: 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 schedule

What does wipe day look like on rust.luthor.consulting?

Averaged over recent wipes, 0 players were counted at the busiest point. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on rust.luthor.consulting?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of rust.luthor.consulting'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. Counted from 43 days 3 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does rust.luthor.consulting run?

The map on rust.luthor.consulting is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on rust.luthor.consulting?

No gather rate appears in the name of rust.luthor.consulting. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does rust.luthor.consulting run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794 on Linux for rust.luthor.consulting. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is rust.luthor.consulting online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, rust.luthor.consulting is online. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is rust.luthor.consulting located?

No region is published by rust.luthor.consulting. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 178.18.252.99:28015.

How to join

How do I join rust.luthor.consulting?

Either enter client.connect 178.18.252.99:28015 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?,v2633,gmvanilla,cs163794,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode The game mode is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2633
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join.
cs163794
Build This server runs game build 163794.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.