Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,861habitat unknownfirst seen 23 Sep 2026

A Rust Server

Offline 78.108.218.56:28018 checked 18d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,861
top 72%
Last wipe
36d 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
15k10k15k20k23 Sep28 Sep3 Oct8 Oct13 Oct18 Oct

Top 72% 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?

Over the past week it ranks #15,861 for player hours, which puts A Rust Server in the top 72% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

A Rust Server is offline at this count; we last saw it 18 days 1 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): The server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect; cs165217 (Build): Game build: 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 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 notes

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. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. The world it runs now dates from 36 days 8 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The map on A Rust Server is procedural, made by the game.

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. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

On Linux, A Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. 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 18 days 1 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 23 September 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. Connect at 78.108.218.56:28018.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 78.108.218.56:28018; 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?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players The server has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect.
cs165217
Build Game build: 165217.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.