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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,326habitat unknownfirst seen 5 Oct 2026

Rust Norsegaming

Offline 78.156.18.124:27785 checked 11h ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,326
top 69%
Last wipe
26d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123414:0020:0003:0009:0019:0001:00

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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct19 Oct24 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

Player counts

How does Rust Norsegaming rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Norsegaming at #15,326, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Norsegaming?

We have no live count for Rust Norsegaming right now. It was last seen 11 hours ago. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Norsegaming mean?

These are the tags Rust Norsegaming publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp10 (Max players): You can join up to 10 slots; 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $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 Norsegaming?

Rust Norsegaming appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Norsegaming?

The record holds too few of Rust Norsegaming'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. Counted from 26 days 3 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Norsegaming run?

Rust Norsegaming uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Norsegaming?

Nothing in Rust Norsegaming'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. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Norsegaming run?

On Linux, Rust Norsegaming runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Rust Norsegaming online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Rust Norsegaming was last seen 11 hours ago. It was up 98% of the time over the last 7 full days, 165 out of 168 hours. On 5 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rust Norsegaming located?

Nothing published by Rust Norsegaming states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 78.156.18.124:27785 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Rust Norsegaming?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 78.156.18.124:27785; 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp10
Max players You can join up to 10 slots.
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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.