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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,126habitat unknownfirst seen 22 Oct 2026

A Rust Server

Online 81.167.215.251:21305 checked 11m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#5,126
top 23%
Last wipe
5d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75100:0009:0019:0003:0012:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040000:0009:0019:0003:0012:0021:00

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 22 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k22 Oct23 Oct25 Oct26 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 23% 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.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 24 Oct, 19:10 UTC5d ago 2 – 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 A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #5,126 for player hours, which puts A Rust Server in the top 23% of all ranked servers.

How busy is A Rust Server?

The count reads 0 players on A Rust Server, which has 40 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 2. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 12:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from A Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): You can join up to 40 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): This server has no region code. 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?

On Rust Population, A Rust Server 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 week and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on A Rust Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 2 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for A Rust Server to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. Counted from 5 days 4 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The map on A Rust Server is procedural, made by the game at size 4,000 from seed 102070. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

Nothing in A Rust Server's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does A Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what A Rust Server uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 176 server fps, with 154 as the lowest. The entity count reached 94,939: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 3,341 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

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

Right now, A Rust Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 4 days 3 hours ago. Over the last 6 full days, 143 of 144 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 22 October 2026.

Where is A Rust Server located?

Nothing published by A Rust Server states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 81.167.215.251:21305.

Getting in

How do I join A Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 81.167.215.251:21305. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players You can join up to 40 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 This server has no region code.

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.