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Element card · group Community · atomic number 4,399, its rank

Rust START Server

Online 212.22.93.119:28024 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes
Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 2 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 2
Rank · atomic number#4,399top 20%
Last wipe2d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 16hThu 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
00.511.5203:0012:0021:0005:0014:0000:00

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
02040608003:0012:0021:0005:0014:0000:00

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 8 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
15k10k15k20k7 Oct11 Oct16 Oct20 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 20% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

usual gap3.6 daysbetween real wipes
on rhythm20%of its recent wipes
wipe-day peak2players, last three wipes
crowd held33%else halves by day 4.5

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 16hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 26 OctThu 22 OctThu 15 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 26 Oct, 10:16 UTC2d ago 2+1 queue – running 0
Thu 22 Oct, 19:27 UTC6d ago 2+1 queue held half 3.6 days 0
Thu 15 Oct, 12:27 UTC13d ago 2+1 queue halved by day 4 7.3 days 0
Wed 14 Oct, 19:18 UTC14d ago 2 – 0.7 days 0
Thu 8 Oct, 12:51 UTC20d ago 1 halved by day 5 6.3 days 1
Wed 7 Oct, 19:33 UTC21d ago 1 – 0.7 days 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 START Server?

The map on Rust START Server is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 685042857, made 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?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust START Server. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

About the server

In what location does Rust START Server sit?

No region is published by Rust START Server. 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 212.22.93.119:28024.

Which Rust version is Rust START Server on?

On Windows, Rust START Server is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliably does Rust START Server stay online?

Right now, Rust START Server is reachable. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 15 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 7 October 2026.

Is Rust START Server known for smooth running?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 59 server fps, with a low of 13. The entity count reached 126,075, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. The highest memory usage was 3,196 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe schedule

When does Rust START Server wipe, and how often?

Once a month is all Rust START Server wipes, with the force wipe. 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 2 days 15 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

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

Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 2 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and a further 1 waited in the queue. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 33% of its recent wipes. In the other cases, half the peak was lost by day 4.5.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rust START Server?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp2 (Max players): 2 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe: that is the tag list Rust START Server 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.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Rust START Server come up?

You will find Rust START Server on the following Rust Data Lab lists: 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 3 days.

Population

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

Player hours over the last week put Rust START Server at #4,399, inside the top 20% of ranked servers.

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

Of 2 slots, 0 are taken on Rust START Server right now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players, peaking at 2. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 14:00 UTC, at 2 players.

Getting on

How can you connect to Rust START Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 212.22.93.119:28024. 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 Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp2
Max players 2 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes happen monthly, at the 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.