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Specimen recordcat. no. 6,832habitat unknownfirst seen 7 Oct 2026

Rust START Server

Online 212.22.93.159:28024 checked 8m ago

monthly wipes

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#6,832
top 31%
Last wipe
21d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123421:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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 7 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
15k10k15k20k7 Oct11 Oct15 Oct20 Oct24 Oct28 Oct

Top 31% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 22h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

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, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 7 Oct, 20:09 UTC21d 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 Rust START Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust START Server at #6,832, within the top 31% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust START Server?

Of its 10 slots, Rust START Server is using 0 right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 2.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust START Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust START Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): The server has 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167058 (Build): The game build is 167058; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe. 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 Rust START Server?

These Rust Population lists include Rust START 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; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Rust START Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust START Server?

Rust START Server wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 21 days ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust START Server run?

The map on Rust START Server is procedural, made by the game at size 2,000 from seed 166494. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust START Server?

Nothing in Rust START Server's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust START Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Windows for Rust START Server. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rust START Server run smoothly?

It ran at 63 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 18. Entities peaked at 17,929, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 1,685 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rust START Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust START Server is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 days 8 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 7 October 2026.

Where is Rust START Server located?

Nothing published by Rust START Server states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 212.22.93.159:28024.

How to join

How do I join Rust START Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 212.22.93.159:28024; 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167058,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players The server has 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167058
Build The game build is 167058.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

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.