Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,729habitat unknownfirst seen 22 Oct 2026

Local Rust

Offline 188.64.173.188:28015 checked 3d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 5
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#14,729
top 66%
Last wipe
5d 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
15k10k15k20k22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct

Top 66% 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 Local Rust rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Local Rust places at #14,729, within the top 66% of ranked servers.

How busy is Local Rust?

We have no live count for Local Rust right now. It was last seen 3 days 11 hours ago. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 1.

Tags

What do the server tags on Local Rust mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Local Rust publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp5 (Max players): The server has 5 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): This server runs 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 Local Rust?

On Rust Population, Local Rust is filed under these lists: 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 week and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Local Rust?

Too few wipes are on record for Local Rust to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 5 days 13 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does Local Rust run?

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

What are the rules and settings on Local Rust?

No gather rate appears in the name of Local Rust. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, 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. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Local Rust run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Local Rust uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is Local Rust online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Local Rust was last seen 3 days 11 hours ago. Over the last 5 full days, 3 of 120 hours were online, or 2%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 22 October 2026.

Where is Local Rust located?

A region is not published by Local Rust. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 188.64.173.188:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Local Rust?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 188.64.173.188:28015. 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp5
Max players The server has 5 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 This server runs 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.