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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,483habitat unknownfirst seen 18 Sep 2026

Rust NPC Server

Offline 85.255.236.12:28015 checked 37d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 8
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,483
top 67%
Last wipe
52d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep22 Sep23 Sep25 Sep26 Sep28 Sep

Top 67% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

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

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 Rust NPC Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Rust NPC Server places at #15,483, within the top 67% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rust NPC Server?

At this count Rust NPC Server is offline, with its last sighting 37 days 10 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust NPC Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust NPC Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp8 (Max players): The server has 8 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs163207 (Build): This server runs game build 163207; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $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 Rust NPC Server?

Rust NPC Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 is the wipe schedule on Rust NPC Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Rust NPC Server's wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. The world it runs now dates from 52 days 7 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Rust NPC Server run?

Rust NPC Server uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Rust NPC Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust NPC Server. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. 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. You play with Valve's anti-cheat off: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust NPC Server run?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Windows is what Rust NPC Server uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

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

We last saw Rust NPC Server 37 days 10 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 18 September 2026.

Where is Rust NPC Server located?

No region is published by Rust NPC Server. 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 85.255.236.12:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust NPC Server?

Either enter client.connect 85.255.236.12:28015 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 mp8,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp8
Max players The server has 8 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs163207
Build This server runs game build 163207.
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.