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Specimen recordcat. no. 16,020habitat unknownfirst seen 3 Oct 2026

Rust Dedicated Server

Offline 66.61.61.76:28015 checked 24d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 5
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#16,020
top 71%
Last wipe
24d 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
15k10k15k20k3 Oct4 Oct6 Oct7 Oct9 Oct10 Oct

Top 71% 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 Dedicated Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Rust Dedicated Server places at #16,020, within the top 71% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Dedicated Server?

We have no live count for Rust Dedicated Server right now. It was last seen 24 days 11 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Dedicated Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust Dedicated Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): The server has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): This server runs game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 Dedicated Server?

Rust Dedicated Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server 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 Dedicated Server?

The record holds too few of Rust Dedicated Server's wipes to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 24 days 11 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Rust Dedicated Server run?

Rust Dedicated Server uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Dedicated Server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rust Dedicated Server states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust Dedicated Server run?

On Windows, Rust Dedicated Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

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

We last saw Rust Dedicated Server 24 days 11 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 3 October 2026.

Where is Rust Dedicated Server located?

No region is published by Rust Dedicated Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 66.61.61.76:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Dedicated Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 66.61.61.76:28015; 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players The server has 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166652
Build This server runs game build 166652.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.