Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,839habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

Rust server

Offline 5.166.4.69:28015 checked 23d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 2
= 1 player
50% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,839
top 61%
Last wipe
23d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct10 Oct11 Oct

Top 61% 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

Population

How does Rust server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust server at #13,839, within the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust server?

Rust server is offline at this count; we last saw it 23 days 6 hours ago.

Lists and 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; mp2 (Max players): 2 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166652 (Build): This server runs game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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?

Rust server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Rust server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust server 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. Counted from 23 days 7 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Rust server run?

Rust server uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Rust server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust server. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows for Rust server. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is Rust server online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Rust server was last seen 23 days 6 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. On 4 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rust server located?

No region is published by Rust server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 5.166.4.69:28015.

How to join

How do I join Rust server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 5.166.4.69:28015. 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 mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp2
Max players 2 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166652
Build This server runs game build 166652.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.