A Rust Server
Offline 86.174.131.251:28016 checked 16h ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 24 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, A Rust Server places at #15,335, within the top 69% of ranked servers.
How busy is A Rust Server?
At this count A Rust Server is offline, with its last sighting 16 hours ago. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.
Tags
What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags A Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): You can join up to 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $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 A Rust Server?
On Rust Population, A Rust Server is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Wipe notes
What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?
The record holds too few of A Rust Server'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 27 days 8 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.
Map and rules
Which map does A Rust Server run?
A Rust Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 31833. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?
Nothing in A Rust Server's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
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. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Does A Rust Server run smoothly?
It ran at 162 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 110. Entities peaked at 50,761, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 1,729 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?
We last saw A Rust Server 16 hours ago, and it is offline now. About 13 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 94% of the time over the last 4 full days, 90 out of 96 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 24 October 2026.
Where is A Rust Server located?
No region is published by A Rust Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 86.174.131.251:28016 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join A Rust Server?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 86.174.131.251:28016; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.