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Element card · group Vanilla · atomic number 5,571, its rank

Rust Server

Online OC 159.196.89.7:28015 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes vanillamoddedoxide
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 3
Rank · atomic number#5,571top 25% · #126 in OC
Last wipe2d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
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
0123423:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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
01020304023:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 25% of all ranked servers, top 61% in OC. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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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.

usual gap23.5 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak4players, last three wipes
crowd held0%else halves by day 2

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sun 25 OctThu 1 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 26 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 25 Oct, 07:41 UTC2d ago 3 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 19:15 UTC FW26d ago 4 halved by day 2 23.5 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on Rust Server?

A procedural map of size 4,800 with seed 542957058 runs on Rust Server, generated by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

How is Rust Server configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. The server describes itself as vanilla: facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

Which location is Rust Server based in?

With its OC tag, Rust Server places itself in Oceania. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 159.196.89.7:28015.

On what Rust version does Rust Server operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Rust Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How dependable is Rust Server for staying online?

At the moment, Rust Server is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is Rust Server known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 20 over the last 48 hours, with 10 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 136,191 entities. Memory use peaked at 5,010 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe schedule

When does Rust Server wipe, and how often?

Rust Server's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 2 days 14 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

What does a typical wipe day on Rust Server involve?

Recent wipes on average reached 4 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's peak fell 26 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. Where it did not hold, the crowd dropped below half by day 2.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags Rust Server carries?

These are the tags Rust Server makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; 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; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings; OC (Oceania): The server browser files it under Oceania. 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 Rust Server come up?

You will find Rust Server on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust servers in Oceania and Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.

Whose server is Rust Server?

1 other server we track also publishes a rusticraiders.com.au hostname, as Rust Server does, which suggests the same operator runs them.

Player numbers

How does Rust Server compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours for the past seven days give Rust Server #5,571, #126 in Oceania, and a place in the top 25% of ranked servers.

How many players does Rust Server have at the moment?

At the moment Rust Server has 0 of its 50 slots filled. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 3. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 09:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

How to join

What steps get you onto Rust Server?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 159.196.89.7:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically. For more, visit https://www.rusticraiders.com.au.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,OC,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
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.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings.

Region

OC
Oceania The server browser files it under Oceania.

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.