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Element card · group Community · atomic number 7,807, its rank

Rusted Methods

Online 108.61.100.191:28016 checked 10m ago

Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#7,807top 35%
Last wipe28d agono schedule published
Next wipe6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
00.250.50.75105:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
025507510005:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 35% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak3players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 34d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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 3, 3 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW28d ago 3 – running 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Map and rules

What map is in play on Rusted Methods?

A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 782583436 runs on Rusted Methods, generated by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

What rules has Rusted Methods set, and what settings are in force?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rusted Methods. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. You will find it under Community in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

About the server

What region hosts Rusted Methods?

No region is published by Rusted Methods. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. You will find it at 108.61.100.191:28016.

Which Rust version is Rusted Methods on?

On Windows, Rusted Methods is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How dependable is Rusted Methods for staying online?

Right now, Rusted Methods is reachable. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 15 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Is Rusted Methods known for smooth running?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 88 server fps, with a low of 79. The entity count reached 122,878, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 3,266 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipes and resets

When does Rusted Methods wipe, and how often?

Once a month is all Rusted Methods wipes, with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. The world it is running now dates from 28 days 7 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on Rusted Methods involve?

Recent wipes on average reached 3 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 3 hours in.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rusted Methods?

These are the tags Rusted Methods makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Rusted Methods come up?

You will find Rusted Methods on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

How does Rusted Methods compare with other servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours table has Rusted Methods at #7,807, in the top 35% of ranked servers.

How full is Rusted Methods right now?

Rusted Methods currently shows 0 players across 50 slots. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 16:00 UTC, when the average was 1 players.

Connection

What is the way to join Rusted Methods?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 108.61.100.191:28016. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in 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.