Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,399, its rank
hard
Offline 178.158.221.43:28015 checked 3d 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 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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 pageServer setup
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?
No gather rate appears in the name of hard. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server details
In what location does hard sit?
There is no region on record for hard. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 178.158.221.43:28015 is the address it uses.
What Rust version does hard currently run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what hard uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
How reliably does hard stay online?
Right now hard is offline, with its last appearance 3 days 22 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 1 of 168 hours were online, giving 1% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 20 October 2026.
Wipes and resets
How often does a wipe happen on hard, and at what time?
The record holds too few of hard's wipes to show 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 11 days 22 hours ago.
Tags, lists
How should you read the tags on hard?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp2 (Max players): Player slots: 2; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set: that is the tag list hard 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 hard appear in?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include hard 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Player counts
Against other Rust servers, where does hard place?
The seven-day player-hours table has hard at #15,399, in the top 69% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on hard tell you?
The last recorded sighting of hard was 3 days 22 hours ago, and it is offline now. The past week gives an average of 0 players.
Connection
How can you connect to hard?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 178.158.221.43:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.