Rust Data LabData lab · live
Live readings Servers11,829 Players89,289 Populated4,008 Fresh wipes · 3h28 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 3,144, its rank

Rust Server

Online 160.236.23.24:28015 checked 2h ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average1peak 4
Rank · atomic number#3,144top 14%
Last wipe16d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe 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
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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
02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 12 Oct. 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
12k4k6k8k12 Oct15 Oct18 Oct22 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 14% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

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

Reaction log

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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Map and rules

What map is in play on Rust Server?

The map on Rust Server is procedural at size 3,000 with seed 1234, made 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?

Nothing in the name of Rust Server gives a gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which location is Rust Server based in?

No region is published by Rust Server. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 160.236.23.24:28015.

What Rust version does Rust Server currently run?

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

How reliably does Rust Server stay online?

At the moment, Rust Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 8 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 159 of 168 hours were online, giving 95% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 12 October 2026.

Does Rust Server hold a steady performance?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 58 server fps, with a low of 51. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 49,063 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,036 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe schedule

What is the wiping pattern on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to reveal a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 16 days 16 hours ago the current world was made.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rust Server?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust Server publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; 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): The region field is left blank. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

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

The Rust Data Lab lists that include Rust Server are: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

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

The seven-day player-hours table has Rust Server at #3,144, in the top 14% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on Rust Server tell you?

At the moment Rust Server has 0 of its 50 slots filled. The week's figures average 1 players and top out at 4. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 16:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.

Getting on

How can you connect to Rust Server?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 160.236.23.24:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

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

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
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 The region field 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.