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Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,404, its rank

rust.luthor.consulting

Online 178.18.252.99:28015 checked 7m ago

Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,404top 69%
Last wipe42d 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
0123423:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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
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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 69% 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.

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

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
Tue 15 Sep, 16:05 UTC42d ago 0 – 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 page

Settings and map

What map is in play on rust.luthor.consulting?

A procedural map runs on rust.luthor.consulting, generated by the game.

How is rust.luthor.consulting configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of rust.luthor.consulting. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. It appears under Community in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

About the server

In what location does rust.luthor.consulting sit?

Nothing about a region is published by rust.luthor.consulting. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 178.18.252.99:28015.

What Rust version does rust.luthor.consulting currently run?

On Linux, rust.luthor.consulting is running Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does rust.luthor.consulting stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, rust.luthor.consulting is reachable. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on rust.luthor.consulting, and at what time?

Too few wipes are on record for rust.luthor.consulting to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 42 days 6 hours ago the current world was made.

What does a typical wipe day on rust.luthor.consulting involve?

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

Tags, lists

How should you read the tags on rust.luthor.consulting?

The game's server browser reads the tags rust.luthor.consulting publishes, which are gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival, vanilla style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs163794 (Build): It runs build 163794; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $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.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does rust.luthor.consulting appear in?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include rust.luthor.consulting 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.

Player counts

Against other Rust servers, where does rust.luthor.consulting place?

The seven-day player-hours table has rust.luthor.consulting at #15,404, in the top 69% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on rust.luthor.consulting tell you?

rust.luthor.consulting currently shows 0 players across 50 slots. The past week gives an average of 0 players.

Getting on

How can you connect to rust.luthor.consulting?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 178.18.252.99:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmvanilla,cs163794,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival, vanilla style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2633
Protocol Protocol 2633 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs163794
Build It runs build 163794.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$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.