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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,984habitat unknownfirst seen 9 Oct 2026

Mad Rust Server

Offline 188.191.42.43:28015 checked 10d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 50
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,984
top 59%
Last wipe
13d 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
15k10k15k20k9 Oct12 Oct15 Oct19 Oct22 Oct25 Oct

Top 59% 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

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 16:58 UTC13d 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 Mad Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #12,984 for player hours, which puts Mad Rust Server in the top 59% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Mad Rust Server?

We have no live count for Mad Rust Server right now. It was last seen 10 days 5 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Mad Rust Server mean?

These are the tags Mad Rust Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167398 (Build): This server runs game build 167398; 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 Mad Rust Server?

Mad Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Mad Rust Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 1 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Mad Rust Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Mad Rust Server'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. Counted from 13 days 11 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does Mad Rust Server run?

The map on Mad Rust Server is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on Mad Rust Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Mad Rust Server states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Mad Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows for Mad Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Mad Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Mad Rust Server was last seen 10 days 5 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 9 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Mad Rust Server located?

A region is not published by Mad Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 188.191.42.43:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Mad Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 188.191.42.43:28015 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?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167398
Build This server runs game build 167398.
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.