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Specimen recordcat. no. 8,609habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Oct 2026

A Shockbyte Rust Server

Online 203.16.163.216:20281 checked 13m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 5
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 3
Rank
#8,609
top 39%
Last wipe
16d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123423:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020023:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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 13 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k13 Oct16 Oct19 Oct23 Oct26 Oct29 Oct

Top 39% 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.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 13 Oct, 16:34 UTC16d ago 2 – running 1

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 A Shockbyte Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place A Shockbyte Rust Server at #8,609, within the top 39% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Shockbyte Rust Server?

A Shockbyte Rust Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 5 slots. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 3 at the busiest.

Tags

What do the server tags on A Shockbyte Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags A Shockbyte Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): You can join up to 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 A Shockbyte Rust Server?

A Shockbyte Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 2 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on A Shockbyte Rust Server?

The record holds too few of A Shockbyte Rust Server's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. The world it runs now dates from 16 days 5 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does A Shockbyte Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 from seed 1468602438, generated by the game, is in use on A Shockbyte Rust Server. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on A Shockbyte Rust Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: A Shockbyte Rust Server states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does A Shockbyte Rust Server run?

On Linux, A Shockbyte Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does A Shockbyte Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 90 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 50. The entity count reached 95,428: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 4,381 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is A Shockbyte Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

A Shockbyte Rust Server is up and running at the moment. About 3 days 6 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 13 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is A Shockbyte Rust Server located?

A region is not published by A Shockbyte Rust Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 203.16.163.216:20281.

Getting in

How do I join A Shockbyte Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 203.16.163.216:20281 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players You can join up to 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.