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Live readings Servers11,645 Players47,241 Populated3,160 Fresh wipes · 3h101 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,213, its rank

Rust START Server

Online 212.22.93.196:28054 checked 10m ago

monthly wipes
Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 10 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak 1
Rank · atomic number#15,213top 68%
Last wipe12d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 10hThu 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
0123409:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

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
02040608009:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

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 15 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
15k10k15k20k15 Oct18 Oct20 Oct23 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 68% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak3players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 10hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 17:20 UTC12d ago 3 – 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 Rust START Server?

The map on Rust START Server is procedural at size 2,000 with seed 13825, made by the game. 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. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it under Community in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which location is Rust START Server based in?

There is no region on record for Rust START Server. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 212.22.93.196:28054 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does Rust START Server operate?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what Rust START Server uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

Does Rust START Server stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, Rust START Server is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 12 days 13 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 15 October 2026.

Is Rust START Server known for smooth running?

The last 48 hours show an average of 63 server fps and a minimum of 10. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 16,951 entities. Memory use peaked at 1,934 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipes and resets

What is the wiping pattern on Rust START Server?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what Rust START Server does. The next time this server wipes will be the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which wipes every Rust server. 12 days 15 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

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

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 3 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rust START Server?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust START Server publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp10 (Max players): 10 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the 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.

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

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 2 weeks.

Population

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

The seven-day player-hours table has Rust START Server at #15,213, in the top 68% of ranked servers.

How full is Rust START Server right now?

Of 10 slots, 0 are taken on Rust START Server right now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players, peaking at 1.

Getting on

What is the way to join Rust START Server?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 212.22.93.196:28054, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp10
Max players 10 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2634
Protocol Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs167781
Build Build number: 167781.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.