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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,970habitat unknownfirst seen 1 Oct 2026

A Rust Server

Offline 79.115.21.99:28015 checked 27d ago

vanillamoddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 5
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,970
top 69%
Last wipe
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
7d 6h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 6h. The force wipe · high confidence

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 6h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 6h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:04 UTC FW27d ago 0 – 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 #15,970 for player hours, which puts A Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

We have no live count for A Rust Server right now. It was last seen 27 days 11 hours ago.

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: gmvanilla (Game mode): The game mode is vanilla survival; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs166494 (Build): Game build: 166494; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on A Rust Server?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

The force wipe is the only wipe A Rust Server takes, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 17 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?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: A Rust Server states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Oxide running as plugins. The server describes itself as vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. 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 2634 and build 166494. 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 27 days 11 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 1 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. Connect at 79.115.21.99:28015.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 79.115.21.99:28015; 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^v,gmvanilla,cs166494,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode The game mode is vanilla survival.
mp5
Max players 5 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs166494
Build Game build: 166494.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.