Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 10,233habitat unknownfirst seen 26 Oct 2026

first_server

Offline 188.162.65.185:28015 checked 2d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 500
0% full
7-day average
1
peak 1
Rank
#10,233
top 46%
Last wipe
15d 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
15k10k15k20k26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 46% 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 first_server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place first_server at #10,233, within the top 46% of all ranked servers.

How busy is first_server?

At this count first_server is offline, with its last sighting 2 days 7 hours ago. We counted an average of 1 players in the past week, with 1 at the busiest.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on first_server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from first_server is this set of tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp500 (Max players): You can join up to 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; 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 first_server?

first_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 schedule

What is the wipe schedule on first_server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of first_server'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. The world it runs now dates from 15 days 16 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does first_server run?

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

What are the rules and settings on first_server?

Nothing in first_server's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: 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 disabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does first_server run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what first_server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is first_server online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, first_server was last seen 2 days 7 hours ago. Over the last 2 full days, 0 of 48 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 26 October 2026.

Where is first_server located?

Nothing published by first_server states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 188.162.65.185:28015.

Getting in

How do I join first_server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 188.162.65.185:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp500
Max players You can join up to 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
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.