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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,266habitat unknownfirst seen 2 Oct 2026

A Rust Server

Offline 78.189.89.77:27036 checked 26d ago

Measurements

Players now
2/ 3
= 1 player
67% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,266
top 54%
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
15k10k15k20k2 Oct3 Oct5 Oct6 Oct8 Oct9 Oct

Top 54% 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 #12,266 for player hours, which puts A Rust Server in the top 54% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

At this count A Rust Server is offline, with its last sighting 26 days 15 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

These are the tags A Rust Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp3 (Max players): 3 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166586 (Build): The game build is 166586; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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: 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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

The record holds too few of A Rust Server'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. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 19 hours ago.

Settings

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. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 on Linux for A Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

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

Offline at the moment, A Rust Server was last seen 26 days 15 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 2 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is A Rust Server located?

Nothing published by A Rust Server states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 78.189.89.77:27036.

Getting in

How do I join A Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 78.189.89.77:27036; 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 mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp3
Max players 3 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166586
Build The game build is 166586.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.