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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,409habitat unknownfirst seen 26 Sep 2026

Mortal Server

Offline 79.173.248.242:28015 checked 7d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 500
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,409
top 69%
Last wipe
26d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes 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
15k10k15k20k26 Sep2 Oct8 Oct15 Oct21 Oct27 Oct

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

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 22 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 15:08 UTC26d ago 1 – running 1

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 Mortal Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,409 for player hours, which puts Mortal Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Mortal Server?

Mortal Server is offline at this count; we last saw it 7 days 21 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Mortal Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Mortal Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): You can join up to 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; 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 Mortal Server?

These Rust Population lists include Mortal Server: 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 does wipe day look like on Mortal Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 22 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Mortal Server?

The record holds too few of Mortal 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. 26 days 6 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does Mortal Server run?

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

What are the rules and settings on Mortal Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Mortal Server. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Mortal Server run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what Mortal Server uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Mortal Server online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Mortal Server was last seen 7 days 21 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 1 of 168 hours were online, or 1%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 26 September 2026.

Where is Mortal Server located?

No region is published by Mortal Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 79.173.248.242:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Mortal Server?

Either enter client.connect 79.173.248.242:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp500
Max players You can join up to 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
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.