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Live readings Servers11,829 Players74,965 Populated3,733 Fresh wipes · 3h252 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 11,228, its rank

Release

Offline 176.61.162.189:28025 checked 6d ago

Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 500 0% full Room to join
7-day average1peak 1
Rank · atomic number#11,228top 50%
Last wipe6d 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
No hourly history yet.

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
This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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
15k10k15k20k22 Oct23 Oct25 Oct26 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

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 gap0.8 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctThu 22 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 23 Oct, 09:35 UTC6d ago 1 – running 1
Thu 22 Oct, 14:41 UTC6d ago 1 – 0.8 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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  3. 3 Ru Rusty Moose |E… 136
    Rusty Moose |EU Main| EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 290 on average 136/ 250
  4. 4 Ru Rustafied.com … 51
    Rustafied.com - EU Friday EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 275 on average 51/ 100
  5. 5 Ru Rustoria.co - … 153
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  6. 6 Ru Rustoria.co - … 292
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

What settings and rules apply on Release?

No gather rate appears in the name of Release. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

Which location is Release based in?

No region is published by Release. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 176.61.162.189:28025.

Which Rust version is Release on?

On Windows, Release is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

Does Release stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Release is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 6 days 3 hours ago. It was online for 2 of 144 hours in the last 6 full days, which is 1% uptime. On 22 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on Release, and at what time?

Release'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 6 days 4 hours ago.

How does Release look on the day of a wipe?

Recent wipes on average reached 1 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Release?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp500 (Max players): Player slots: 500; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here: that is the tag list Release publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. 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.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Release appear in?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include Release are: Rust community servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

Player numbers

What position does Release hold among Rust servers?

Release sits at #11,228 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 50% of ranked servers.

How many players does Release have at the moment?

Release is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 6 days 3 hours ago. Averaged over the past week: 1 players, peaking at 1.

Getting on

What steps get you onto Release?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 176.61.162.189:28025. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp500
Max players Player slots: 500.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$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.