Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 7,114habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

A Rust Server

Online 76.164.197.225:25565 checked 9m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#7,114
top 32%
Last wipe
25d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5215:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040015:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

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 4 Oct. 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 Oct9 Oct14 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 Oct

Top 32% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 33 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 12:22 UTC25d ago 2 – running 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?

Over the past week it ranks #7,114 for player hours, which puts A Rust Server in the top 32% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

Of its 10 slots, A Rust Server is using 0 right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 2. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 05:00 UTC, when an average of 2 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags A Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): 10 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. 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 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 Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on A Rust Server?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 2 players. Peak came 33 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for A Rust Server to show its 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 25 days 2 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The map on A Rust Server is procedural, made by the game at size 2,500 from seed 23821. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

Nothing in A Rust Server's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what A Rust Server uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 182 server fps, with 112 as the lowest. Up to 32,371 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 1,896 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?

A Rust Server is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 11 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 4 October 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. 76.164.197.225:25565 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join A Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 76.164.197.225:25565; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://bloom.host.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players 10 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.