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Specimen recordcat. no. 6,839habitat unknownfirst seen 21 Oct 2026

RustyGear

Online 213.144.132.254:28015 checked 12m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 3
Rank
#6,839
top 31%
Last wipe
8d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75122:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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 24 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
15k10k15k20k21 Oct23 Oct24 Oct26 Oct27 Oct29 Oct

Top 31% 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

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

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 21 Oct, 19:06 UTC8d 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

Player counts

How does RustyGear rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #6,839 for player hours, which puts RustyGear in the top 31% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RustyGear?

RustyGear holds 0 players at the moment, out of 10 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 3. Look at the last 48 hours and 16:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 0 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on RustyGear mean?

These are the tags RustyGear publishes, as read by the game's server browser: 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; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. 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 RustyGear?

These Rust Population lists include RustyGear: Modded Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on RustyGear?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on RustyGear?

Too few wipes are on record for RustyGear to show its 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 8 days 2 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does RustyGear run?

A procedural map of size 4,250 from seed 39733812, generated by the game, is in use on RustyGear. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RustyGear?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustyGear. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. You will find Oxide running as plugins. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does RustyGear run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for RustyGear. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does RustyGear run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 222 server fps, with 209 as the lowest. The entity count reached 94,990: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 4,507 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is RustyGear online, and how reliable is it?

You will find RustyGear online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 4 days 19 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 99 of 168 hours were online, or 59%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 21 October 2026.

Where is RustyGear located?

Nothing published by RustyGear states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 213.144.132.254:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join RustyGear?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 213.144.132.254:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

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.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.