Element card · group Community · atomic number 12,998, its rank
hard
Offline 178.158.214.251:28015 checked 10d ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 60% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 16 Oct, 11:49 UTC11d ago | 1 | – | 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 pageSettings and map
What map is in play on hard?
The map on hard is procedural, made by the game.
How is hard configured, and what rules apply?
Nothing in the name of hard gives a gather rate. 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. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server facts
What region hosts hard?
No region is published by hard. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 178.158.214.251:28015 is the address it uses.
What Rust version does hard currently run?
On Windows, hard is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
How dependable is hard for staying online?
hard is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 10 days 21 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 17 September 2026.
Wipe schedule
How often does a wipe happen on hard, and at what time?
Too few wipes are on record for hard to reveal a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 11 days 22 hours ago.
How does hard look on the day of a wipe?
Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 1 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began.
Where it appears
How should you read the tags on hard?
The game's server browser reads the tags hard publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp2 (Max players): Player slots: 2; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does hard come up?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include hard are: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Population
How does hard compare with other servers in the rankings?
Player hours over the last week put hard at #12,998, inside the top 60% of ranked servers.
How full is hard right now?
The last recorded sighting of hard was 10 days 21 hours ago, and it is offline now.
Getting on
What steps get you onto hard?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 178.158.214.251:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.