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Live readings Servers11,898 Players103,740 Populated4,020 Fresh wipes · 3h413 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 16,320, its rank

The Rust Server

Offline 202.189.16.197:28246 checked 34d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#16,320top 71%
Last wipe34d 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, measured since 25 Sep. 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
15k10k15k20k25 Sep26 Sep28 Sep29 Sep1 Oct2 Oct

Top 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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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

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

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

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 25 Sep, 12:34 UTC34d 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

Server setup

What map is in play on The Rust Server?

The map on The Rust Server is procedural at size 3,000 with seed 966264843, made by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

How is The Rust Server configured, and what rules apply?

The name of The Rust Server carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server details

What region hosts The Rust Server?

No region is published by The Rust Server. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 202.189.16.197:28246.

What Rust version does The Rust Server currently run?

On Linux, The Rust Server is running Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliably does The Rust Server stay online?

Currently offline, The Rust Server was last seen 34 days 6 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 25 September 2026.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on The Rust Server, and at what time?

The record holds too few of The Rust Server's wipes to show its rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 34 days 6 hours ago.

On The Rust Server, what happens when wipe day arrives?

Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 0 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags The Rust Server carries?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 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; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; 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 The Rust Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. 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 The Rust Server come up?

You will find The Rust Server on the following Rust Data Lab lists: 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.

Player numbers

Against other Rust servers, where does The Rust Server place?

The seven-day player-hours table has The Rust Server at #16,320, in the top 71% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on The Rust Server tell you?

The Rust Server is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 34 days 6 hours ago.

Connection

What steps get you onto The Rust Server?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 202.189.16.197:28246, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. You can find its website at https://minekuai.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp40
Max players It has 40 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.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
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.