Element card · group PvE · atomic number 15,268, its rank
The Signal
Online NA 104.192.227.51:28015 checked 10m ago
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 68% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. 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
newest first| 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.
Similar servers
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from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on The Signal?
The map on The Signal is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 1337, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map. On the map name: Custom Map.
What rules has The Signal set, and what settings are in force?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Signal. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. Play runs as pve, other players cannot be fought. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Server details
Which location is The Signal based in?
With its NA tag, The Signal places itself in North America. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 104.192.227.51:28015.
What Rust version does The Signal currently run?
On Windows, The Signal is running Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliably does The Signal stay online?
At the moment, The Signal is online. About 8 days ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.
Is The Signal known for smooth running?
Server fps averaged 38 over the last 48 hours, with 17 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 129,778 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,881 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.
Wipes and resets
How often does a wipe happen on The Signal, and at what time?
The Signal's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 104 days 2 hours ago.
Where it appears
Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Signal?
The game's server browser reads the tags The Signal publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp30 (Max players): It has 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2631 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2631, so your game needs the same version; cs158240 (Build): The game build is 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^p (PvE): You fight the world, not other players; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded; NA (North America): In the browser it sits under North America. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does The Signal appear in?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include The Signal are: Modded Rust servers, measured, Best Rust PvE servers, measured live and North American Rust servers: the sample. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player numbers
What position does The Signal hold among Rust servers?
Seven-day player hours place The Signal at #15,268 overall, #1,496 in North America and in the top 68% of ranked servers.
How many players does The Signal have at the moment?
The Signal currently shows 0 players across 30 slots. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.
Getting on
What is the way to join The Signal?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 104.192.227.51:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.