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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,903habitat unknownfirst seen 30 Sep 2026

A Rust Staging Server

Offline 208.88.69.27:28025 checked 28d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 50
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#14,903
top 62%
Last wipe
28d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct2 Oct3 Oct5 Oct6 Oct7 Oct

Top 62% 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.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 30 Sep, 23:57 UTC28d ago 1 – 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does A Rust Staging Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #14,903 for player hours, which puts A Rust Staging Server in the top 62% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Staging Server?

A Rust Staging Server is offline at this count; we last saw it 28 days 4 hours ago.

Tags

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

What the game's server browser reads from A Rust Staging Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs166440 (Build): Game build: 166440; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $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 A Rust Staging Server?

These Rust Population lists include A Rust Staging Server: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server 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 Rust Staging Server?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Staging Server?

The record holds too few of A Rust Staging 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. Counted from 28 days 5 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

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

Nothing in A Rust Staging Server's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does A Rust Staging Server run?

On Linux, A Rust Staging Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166440. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

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

Currently offline, A Rust Staging Server was last seen 28 days 4 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 30 September 2026.

Where is A Rust Staging Server located?

No region is published by A Rust Staging Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 208.88.69.27:28025.

Getting in

How do I join A Rust Staging Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 208.88.69.27:28025; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166440,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs166440
Build Game build: 166440.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.