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Element card · group Community · atomic number 13,943, its rank

Rust START Server

Online 212.22.93.196:28044 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 1 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#13,943top 63%
Last wipe22d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 14hThu 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
0123405:0014:0023:0009:0018:0003:00

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
02040608005:0014:0023:0009:0018:0003:00

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 5 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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct10 Oct14 Oct19 Oct23 Oct28 Oct

Top 63% 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 8d 14h. 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

Map and rules

What map is in play on Rust START Server?

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

What settings and rules apply on Rust START Server?

Nothing in the name of Rust START Server gives a 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. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

About the server

Which location is Rust START Server based in?

Nothing about a region is published by Rust START Server. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 212.22.93.196:28044 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does Rust START Server operate?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows is what Rust START Server uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliably does Rust START Server stay online?

At the moment, Rust START Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 9 days 8 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 5 October 2026.

How well does Rust START Server perform?

Server fps averaged 62 over the last 48 hours, with 31 as the lowest. The entity count reached 48,601, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 2,654 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipes and resets

When does Rust START Server wipe, and how often?

Estimated from the force wipe is when Rust START Server next wipes. 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 22 days 13 hours ago. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

Lists and tags

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

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp1 (Max players): It has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs166652 (Build): It runs build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^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.

Population

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

The seven-day player-hours table has Rust START Server at #13,943, in the top 63% of ranked servers.

How full is Rust START Server right now?

Of 1 slots, 0 are taken on Rust START Server right now. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top.

Getting on

What is the way to join Rust START Server?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 212.22.93.196:28044. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp1
Max players It has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version.
cs166652
Build It runs build 166652.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

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.