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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,349habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RUST Server

Online 216.245.177.8:28015 checked 12m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 30
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,349
top 69%
Last wipe
51d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

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 17 Sep. 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% 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?

The last seven days of player hours place RUST Server at #15,349, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RUST Server?

RUST Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 30 slots. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on RUST Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags RUST Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp30 (Max players): You can join up to 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs163207 (Build): Game build: 163207; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include RUST Server?

These Rust Population lists include RUST Server: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on RUST Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of RUST Server's wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 51 days 8 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does RUST Server run?

RUST Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,500 with seed 648252. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RUST Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: 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. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does RUST Server run?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Windows is what RUST Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does RUST Server run smoothly?

It ran at 102 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 90. Entities peaked at 70,030, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 6,614 MB. 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. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 days 12 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is RUST Server located?

A region is not published by RUST Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 216.245.177.8:28015.

Getting in

How do I join RUST Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 216.245.177.8:28015; 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 mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp30
Max players You can join up to 30 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs163207
Build Game build: 163207.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.