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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,349habitat unknownfirst seen 19 Oct 2026

Kou

Offline 182.164.217.248:28015 checked 2d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 500
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,349
top 69%
Last wipe
9d 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
15k10k15k20k19 Oct21 Oct23 Oct24 Oct26 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% 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

Population

How does Kou rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Kou at #15,349, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Kou?

Kou is offline at this count; we last saw it 2 days 8 hours ago. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Kou mean?

These are the tags Kou publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp500 (Max players): The server has 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Kou?

These Rust Population lists include Kou: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Kou?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Kou'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. 9 days 10 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Kou run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on Kou.

What are the rules and settings on Kou?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Kou states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Kou run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for Kou. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is Kou online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw Kou 2 days 8 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 3 of 168 hours were online, or 2%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 19 October 2026.

Where is Kou located?

A region is not published by Kou. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 182.164.217.248:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Kou?

Either enter client.connect 182.164.217.248:28015 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 mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp500
Max players The server has 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.