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Live readings Servers11,829 Players89,289 Populated4,008 Fresh wipes · 3h0 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 16,173, its rank

The Rust Server

Offline 43.227.71.245:20016 checked 33d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#16,173top 71%
Last wipe34d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe 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
No hourly history yet.

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
This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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
15k10k15k20k24 Sep26 Sep27 Sep29 Sep30 Sep2 Oct

Top 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

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
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 The Rust Server?

A procedural map runs on The Rust Server, generated by the game.

What rules has The Rust Server set, and what settings are in force?

Nothing in the name of The Rust 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. Raids and player fights are part of play here. It appears under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

About the server

Which location is The Rust Server based in?

No region is published by The Rust Server. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 43.227.71.245:20016.

On what Rust version does The Rust Server operate?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux is what The Rust Server uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

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

Currently offline, The Rust Server was last seen 33 days 18 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 24 September 2026.

Wipe schedule

When does The Rust Server wipe, and how often?

The Rust Server's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 34 days 5 hours ago the current world was made.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Rust Server?

These are the tags The Rust Server makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp40 (Max players): Player slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2633, so your game needs the same version; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank. 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 The Rust Server come up?

You will find The Rust 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; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

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

The Rust Server sits at #16,173 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 71% of ranked servers.

How many players does The Rust Server have at the moment?

The last recorded sighting of The Rust Server was 33 days 18 hours ago, and it is offline now.

How to join

What is the way to join The Rust Server?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 43.227.71.245:20016. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp40
Max players Player slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol The server runs protocol 2633, so your game needs the same version.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

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.