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Specimen recordcat. no. 11,271habitat unknownfirst seen 14 Sep 2026

A Rust Server

Online 37.230.228.133:28300 checked 14m ago

moddedcarbon

Measurements

Players now
1/ 40
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#11,271
top 50%
Last wipe
6d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no rhythm it keeps
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75115:0016:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304015:0016:0017:00

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 21 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 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

3.3 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctTue 20 OctWed 7 Oct
00.511.52+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
Fri 23 Oct, 11:43 UTC6d ago 1 – running 2
Tue 20 Oct, 19:08 UTC8d ago 2 – 2.7 days 0
Wed 7 Oct, 13:34 UTC22d ago 2 held half 13.2 days 2
Mon 5 Oct, 15:33 UTC24d ago 2 – 1.9 days 1
Thu 1 Oct, 17:33 UTC FW28d ago 0 – 3.9 days 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 Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place A Rust Server at #11,271, within the top 50% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

Of its 40 slots, A Rust Server is using 1 right now. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 1 at the busiest. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from A Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use; modded (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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 A Rust Server?

A Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on A Rust Server?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 2 players. Peak came 1 hours into the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

No next wipe can be predicted for A Rust Server, which wipes at irregular times. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 6 days 6 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

A Rust Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 1,000 with seed 1337. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. The name on the map is Micro Rust.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: A Rust Server states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. You will find Carbon running as plugins. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for A Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 30. Entities peaked at 4,006, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 833 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

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

Right now, A Rust Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 40 minutes ago. It was up 3% of the time over the last 7 full days, 5 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 14 September 2026.

Where is A Rust Server located?

A region is not published by A Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 37.230.228.133:28300 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join A Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 37.230.228.133:28300 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y,modded

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players 40 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework, Carbon, is in use.
modded
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.