Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,962habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

A Rust Server

Offline 77.8.52.243:7780 checked 24d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,962
top 71%
Last wipe
26d 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 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 A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, A Rust Server places at #15,962, within the top 71% of ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

At this count A Rust Server is offline, with its last sighting 24 days 8 hours ago.

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; mp40 (Max players): You can join up to 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs166586 (Build): This server runs game build 166586; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $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 A Rust Server?

These Rust Population lists include A Rust Server: 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 schedule

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of A Rust Server's wipes are on record. 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 26 days 9 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

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

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. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Linux is what A Rust Server uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

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

We last saw A Rust Server 24 days 8 hours ago, and it is offline now. 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 A Rust Server located?

No region is published by A Rust Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 77.8.52.243:7780 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 77.8.52.243:7780; 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players You can join up to 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs166586
Build This server runs game build 166586.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.