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Live readings Servers11,727 Players59,874 Populated3,366 Fresh wipes · 3h179 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 5,886, its rank

Rust START Server

Online 212.22.93.117:28024 checked 8m ago

monthly wipes
Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 2 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 4
Rank · atomic number#5,886top 26%
Last wipe4d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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
00.511.5211:0020:0005:0013:0000:0009:00

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
02040608011:0020:0005:0013:0000:0009:00

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 24 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
12.5k5k7.5k10k24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 26% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 8h. The 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 Rust START Server?

A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 1605290779 runs on Rust START Server, generated by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

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

The name of Rust START Server carries no gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. It appears under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server details

In what location does Rust START Server sit?

There is no region on record for Rust START Server. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 212.22.93.117:28024 is the address it uses.

What Rust version does Rust START Server currently run?

On Windows, Rust START Server is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How dependable is Rust START Server for staying online?

At the moment, Rust START Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 16 hours ago. It was online for 83 of 96 hours in the last 4 full days, which is 86% uptime. On 24 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

How well does Rust START Server perform?

Server fps averaged 62 over the last 48 hours, with 25 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 48,769 entities. The highest memory usage was 1,909 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe schedule

When does Rust START Server wipe, and how often?

An estimate from the force wipe puts the next wipe on Rust START Server. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 4 days 19 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

Where it appears

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

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust START Server publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp2 (Max players): It has 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe. 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 Rust START Server appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Rust START Server: Rust community servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.

Player counts

How does Rust START Server compare with other servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours table has Rust START Server at #5,886, in the top 26% of ranked servers.

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

Rust START Server currently shows 0 players across 2 slots. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 4. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Connection

What steps get you onto Rust START Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 212.22.93.117:28024. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp2
Max players It has 2 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe.

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.