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Specimen recordcat. no. 5,090habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

Local

Online 82.208.123.224:28015 checked 11m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 500
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#5,090
top 23%
Last wipe
17d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5219:0001:0007:0012:0019:0001:00

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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct19 Oct24 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, 5 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 11 Oct, 14:35 UTC17d 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

Player counts

How does Local rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Local at #5,090, within the top 23% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Local?

Local holds 0 players at the moment, out of 500 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 22:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on Local mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Local is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. 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 Local?

Local appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Local?

Averaged over recent wipes, 2 players were counted at the busiest point. 5 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Local?

The record holds too few of Local's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. Counted from 17 days 7 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Local run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on Local.

What are the rules and settings on Local?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Local states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, 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. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Local run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Local uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is Local online, and how reliable is it?

Local is up and running at the moment. Over the last 7 full days, 83 of 168 hours were online, or 49%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 4 October 2026.

Where is Local located?

Nothing published by Local states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 82.208.123.224:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Local?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 82.208.123.224:28015; 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 mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp500
Max players 500 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.