The Rust Server
Offline 202.189.16.201:40265 checked 16d 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 12 Oct. 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.
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
Population
How does The Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, The Rust Server places at #15,461, within the top 71% of ranked servers.
How busy is The Rust Server?
The Rust Server is offline at this count; we last saw it 16 days 15 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): The server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $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 The Rust Server?
These Rust Population lists include The Rust Server: 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 and it will show up.
Wipe notes
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Server?
Too few wipes are on record for The Rust Server 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. 17 days 5 hours ago the current world was made.
Settings
Which map does The Rust Server run?
A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 1175069549, generated by the game, is in use on The Rust Server. 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. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Rust Server run?
On Linux, The Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Is The Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?
We last saw The Rust Server 16 days 15 hours ago, and it is offline now. 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 12 October 2026.
Where is The Rust Server located?
A region is not 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. You will find it at 202.189.16.201:40265.
How to join
How do I join The Rust Server?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 202.189.16.201:40265; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. For more, visit its website: https://minekuai.com.