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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,335habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

ME21

Online 81.16.176.157:7135 checked 9m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,335
top 69%
Last wipe
11d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123414:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

025507510014:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

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, measured since 17 Sep. 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 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.

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

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
Sat 17 Oct, 17:50 UTC11d 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

Player counts

How does ME21 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place ME21 at #15,335, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is ME21?

The count reads 0 players on ME21, which has 40 slots. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on ME21 mean?

These are the tags ME21 publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): The server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 ME21?

On Rust Population, ME21 is filed under these lists: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on ME21?

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

What is the wipe schedule on ME21?

The record holds too few of ME21'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 11 days 20 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does ME21 run?

ME21 uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 2147483647. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on ME21?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: ME21 states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. 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 ME21 run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what ME21 uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does ME21 run smoothly?

It ran at 70 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 21. Entities peaked at 117,594, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 5,987 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is ME21 online, and how reliable is it?

ME21 is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 days 18 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is ME21 located?

A region is not published by ME21. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 81.16.176.157:7135.

Getting in

How do I join ME21?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 81.16.176.157:7135; 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp40
Max players The server has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$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.