Element card · group Community · atomic number 14,578, its rank
ALFA
Offline 5.18.251.158:28015 checked 10d ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 66% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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 pageSettings and map
What settings and rules apply on ALFA?
No gather rate appears in the name of ALFA. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server details
What region hosts ALFA?
No region is published by ALFA. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 5.18.251.158:28015.
What Rust version does ALFA currently run?
On Windows, ALFA is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliably does ALFA stay online?
Currently offline, ALFA was last seen 10 days 7 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. On 18 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
Wipe days
When does ALFA wipe, and how often?
Too few wipes are on record for ALFA to reveal a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 14 days 5 hours ago.
Lists and tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on ALFA?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp500 (Max players): Player slots: 500; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here: that is the tag list ALFA 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.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does ALFA appear in?
You will find ALFA on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
Against other Rust servers, where does ALFA place?
ALFA sits at #14,578 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 66% of ranked servers.
How many players does ALFA have at the moment?
The last recorded sighting of ALFA was 10 days 7 hours ago, and it is offline now.
Connection
What steps get you onto ALFA?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 5.18.251.158:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.