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Live readings Servers11,618 Players39,799 Populated2,961 Fresh wipes · 3h88 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,339, its rank

Sober Rust

Online 188.42.131.180:28015 checked 9m ago

Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,339top 69%
Last wipe17d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe 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
0123408:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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
02040608008:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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 12 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k12 Oct15 Oct19 Oct22 Oct26 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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 page

Settings and map

What map is in play on Sober Rust?

A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 612351 runs on Sober Rust, generated by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

How is Sober Rust configured, and what rules apply?

The name of Sober Rust carries no gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. It appears under Community in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

About the server

What region hosts Sober Rust?

There is no region on record for Sober Rust. 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 188.42.131.180:28015.

Which Rust version is Sober Rust on?

On Windows, Sober Rust is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

Does Sober Rust stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

At the moment, Sober Rust is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 17 days 1 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 12 October 2026.

Does Sober Rust hold a steady performance?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 60 server fps, with a low of 59. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 45,034 entities. Up to 3,478 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipes and resets

When does Sober Rust wipe, and how often?

The record holds too few of Sober Rust's wipes to show its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 17 days 2 hours ago the current world was made.

Tags, lists

What should you understand from the tags Sober Rust carries?

gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; 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; cs167398 (Build): Build number: 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set: that is the tag list Sober Rust 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 Sober Rust appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Sober Rust: 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.

Player counts

How does Sober Rust compare with other servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours table has Sober Rust at #15,339, in the top 69% of ranked servers.

How full is Sober Rust right now?

Of 50 slots, 0 are taken on Sober Rust right now. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.

How to join

What is the way to join Sober Rust?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 188.42.131.180:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam. You can find its website at https://low.ms/game-servers/rust-server-hosting.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
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.
cs167398
Build Build number: 167398.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.