RUST Server
Online 198.73.57.161:28025 checked 13m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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, measured since 11 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 38% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does RUST Server rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place RUST Server at #8,466, within the top 38% of all ranked servers.
How busy is RUST Server?
RUST Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 30 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 03:00 UTC, when an average of 2 players were on.
Tags
What do the server tags on RUST Server mean?
These are the tags RUST Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp30 (Max players): You can join up to 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include RUST Server?
RUST Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Wipe notes
What is the wipe schedule on RUST Server?
Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of RUST 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. Counted from 17 days 17 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.
Settings
Which map does RUST Server run?
RUST Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,500 with seed 648252. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on RUST Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of RUST Server. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Oxide running as plugins. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
Server details
Which version of Rust does RUST Server run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for RUST Server. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Does RUST Server run smoothly?
It ran at 104 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 72. The entity count reached 71,474: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 2,885 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is RUST Server online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, RUST Server is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 days 10 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 11 October 2026.
Where is RUST Server located?
Nothing published by RUST 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 198.73.57.161:28025.
How to join
How do I join RUST Server?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 198.73.57.161:28025; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.