Rust Data LabData lab · live
Live readings Servers11,801 Players73,164 Populated3,682 Fresh wipes · 3h113 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,348, its rank

Rust Server

Online 168.100.161.129:28129 checked 11m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,348top 69%
Last wipe7d agono schedule published
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
0123422:0007:0016:0000:0009:0019:00

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
0246822:0007:0016:0000:0009:0019:00

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 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. 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 gap33.9 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Wed 21 OctThu 17 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 21 Oct, 12:55 UTC7d ago 0 – running 0
Thu 17 Sep, 15:55 UTC41d ago 0 – 33.9 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

Settings and map

What map is in play on Rust Server?

Rust Server runs a procedural map of size 2,000 with seed 123456; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

How is Rust Server configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server details

What region hosts Rust Server?

Nothing about a region is published by Rust Server. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 168.100.161.129:28129.

What Rust version does Rust Server currently run?

On Linux, Rust Server is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliably does Rust Server stay online?

Right now, Rust Server is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 7 days 3 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, giving 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Is Rust Server known for smooth running?

The last 48 hours show an average of 5 server fps and a minimum of 5. The maximum entity count was 16,755, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Up to 1,322 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to reveal a 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 7 days 8 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on Rust Server involve?

Recent wipes on average reached 0 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rust Server?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): Player slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here: that is the tag list Rust Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. 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 Rust Server appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Rust Server: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Player numbers

Against other Rust servers, where does Rust Server place?

Rust Server sits at #15,348 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.

How full is Rust Server right now?

Of 40 slots, 0 are taken on Rust Server right now. The past week gives an average of 0 players.

How to join

What is the way to join Rust Server?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 168.100.161.129:28129, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players Player slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs167781
Build Build number: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

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.