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Live readings Servers11,733 Players61,573 Populated3,391 Fresh wipes · 3h186 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 6,516, its rank

RustApex

Online 203.16.163.168:28015 checked 9m ago

Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 1/ 125 1% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 2
Rank · atomic number#6,516top 29%
Last wipe15h 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
AveragePeakWipe
00.511.5219:0003:0010:0019:0002:0010:00Wiped Tue 27 Oct, 19:42 UTCWIPEWiped Wed 28 Oct, 19:42 UTCWIPE

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
Server fpsWipe
05010015020019:0003:0010:0019:0002:0010:00Wiped Tue 27 Oct, 19:42 UTCWIPEWiped Wed 28 Oct, 19:42 UTCWIPE

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 27 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
12.5k5k7.5k10k27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 29% 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.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 28 Oct, 19:42 UTC15h ago – – 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

Map and rules

What map is in play on RustApex?

The map on RustApex is procedural at size 4,000 with seed 1829969500, made by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

What settings and rules apply on RustApex?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustApex. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, 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. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

What region hosts RustApex?

No region is published by RustApex. 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 203.16.163.168:28015.

On what Rust version does RustApex operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what RustApex uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does RustApex stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, RustApex is reachable. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 hours ago. Across 1 full day, 23 of 24 hours were online, a rate of 96%. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 27 October 2026.

How well does RustApex perform?

Server fps averaged 98 over the last 48 hours, with 72 as the lowest. The maximum entity count was 102,078, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The highest memory usage was 4,545 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipes and resets

How often does a wipe happen on RustApex, and at what time?

RustApex's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 15 hours ago.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on RustApex?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp125 (Max players): It has 125 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here: that is the tag list RustApex 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 RustApex come up?

You will find RustApex on the following Rust Data Lab lists: 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 24 hours.

Population

How does RustApex compare with other servers in the rankings?

RustApex sits at #6,516 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 29% of ranked servers.

How many players does RustApex have at the moment?

At the moment RustApex has 1 of its 125 slots filled. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 2 at the top. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 20:00 UTC, at 2 players.

Getting on

What is the way to join RustApex?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 203.16.163.168:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. For more, visit https://discord.com/invite/n4UehSPmN.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp125,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp125
Max players It has 125 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$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.