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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,338habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rusty TEC

Online 68.150.249.10:1027 checked 7m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 20
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,338
top 69%
Last wipe
100d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123409:0018:0003:0011:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

025507510009:0018:0003:0011:0021:0006:00

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

Population

How does Rusty TEC rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Rusty TEC places at #15,338, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rusty TEC?

The count reads 0 players on Rusty TEC, which has 20 slots. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rusty TEC mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Rusty TEC is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp20 (Max players): You can join up to 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2631 (Protocol): The protocol is 2631; a different version will not connect; cs158240 (Build): Game build: 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rusty TEC?

Rusty TEC 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 Rusty TEC?

The record holds too few of Rusty TEC'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. Counted from 100 days 6 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does Rusty TEC run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 from seed 2145736698, generated by the game, is in use on Rusty TEC. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty TEC?

Nothing in Rusty TEC's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rusty TEC run?

Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240 on Windows is what Rusty TEC uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rusty TEC run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 84 server fps, with 71 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 95,746, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 5,125 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Rusty TEC online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Rusty TEC online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 7 days 21 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rusty TEC located?

A region is not published by Rusty TEC. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 68.150.249.10:1027.

How to join

How do I join Rusty TEC?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 68.150.249.10:1027; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://thenergeticon.com.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2631,gmrust,cs158240,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp20
Max players You can join up to 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2631
Protocol The protocol is 2631; a different version will not connect.
cs158240
Build Game build: 158240.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

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.