The Rust Server
Offline 202.189.16.197:28246 checked 34d 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 25 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 71% 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.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 25 Sep, 12:34 UTC34d ago | 0 | – | 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does The Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place The Rust Server at #16,320, within the top 71% of all ranked servers.
How busy is The Rust Server?
At this count The Rust Server is offline, with its last sighting 34 days 8 hours ago.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on The Rust Server mean?
These are the tags The Rust Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): You can join up to 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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 The Rust Server?
On Rust Population, The Rust Server is filed under these lists: 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 notes
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Server?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Server?
Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of The 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. The world it runs now dates from 34 days 8 hours ago.
Settings
Which map does The Rust Server run?
The map on The Rust Server is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 966264843. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Server. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
Server details
Which version of Rust does The Rust Server run?
On Linux, The Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Is The Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?
Offline at the moment, The Rust Server was last seen 34 days 8 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 25 September 2026.
Where is The Rust Server located?
No region is published by The Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 202.189.16.197:28246.
How to join
How do I join The Rust Server?
Either enter client.connect 202.189.16.197:28246 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. For more, visit its website: https://minekuai.com.