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

RustServer

Online 85.131.253.153:28015 checked 7m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,335
top 69%
Last wipe
22d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123410:0019:0004:0012:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040010:0019:0004:0012:0022:0007:00

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.

18.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Tue 6 OctThu 17 Sep
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
Tue 6 Oct, 20:25 UTC22d ago 0 – running 0
Thu 17 Sep, 23:19 UTC41d ago 0 – 18.9 days 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 RustServer rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, RustServer places at #15,335, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is RustServer?

The count reads 0 players on RustServer, which has 50 slots. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on RustServer mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags RustServer publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 RustServer?

On Rust Population, RustServer 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 and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on RustServer?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 0 players. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on RustServer?

Too few wipes are on record for RustServer 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. The world it runs now dates from 22 days 12 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does RustServer run?

The map on RustServer is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 19686. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RustServer?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustServer. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, 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. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does RustServer run?

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

Does RustServer run smoothly?

It ran at 189 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 131. Up to 49,616 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,859 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is RustServer online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RustServer is online. About 11 days 10 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is RustServer located?

Nothing published by RustServer 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 85.131.253.153:28015.

Getting in

How do I join RustServer?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 85.131.253.153:28015; 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.