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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,050habitat unknownfirst seen 5 Oct 2026

RUST Server

Online 216.245.177.2:28025 checked 12m ago

moddedcarbon

Measurements

Players now
1/ 30
= 1 player
3% full
7-day average
0
peak 3
Rank
#5,050
top 23%
Last wipe
23d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123402:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020002:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

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 5 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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 Oct

Top 23% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does RUST Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, RUST Server places at #5,050, within the top 23% of ranked servers.

How busy is RUST Server?

The count reads 1 players on RUST Server, which has 30 slots. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 3 at the busiest. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 03:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on RUST Server mean?

These are the tags RUST Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp30 (Max players): You can join up to 30 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): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server. 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 RUST Server?

These Rust Population lists include RUST Server: Modded Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on RUST Server?

The record holds too few of 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. 23 days 4 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does RUST Server run?

The map on RUST Server is procedural, made by the game at size 3,500 from seed 648252. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RUST Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: RUST Server states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Carbon running as plugins. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does RUST Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for RUST Server. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does RUST Server run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 99 server fps, with 78 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 72,407, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,306 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is RUST Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RUST Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 4 days 20 hours ago. It was up 86% of the time over the last 7 full days, 145 out of 168 hours. On 5 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is RUST Server located?

A region is not published by 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 216.245.177.2:28025.

Getting in

How do I join RUST Server?

Either enter client.connect 216.245.177.2:28025 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 mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp30
Max players You can join up to 30 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 RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server.

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.