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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,049, its rank

Area 51

Offline 51.89.195.13:26000 checked 44d ago

moddedoxide
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 10 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,049no region published
Last wipe55d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep
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 Area 51?

Generated by the game, the map on Area 51 is procedural.

How is Area 51 configured, and what rules apply?

Nothing in the name of Area 51 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. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

What region hosts Area 51?

Nothing about a region is published by Area 51. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 51.89.195.13:26000.

Which Rust version is Area 51 on?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794 on Linux is what Area 51 uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How dependable is Area 51 for staying online?

Area 51 is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 44 days 23 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Wipe schedule

When does Area 51 wipe, and how often?

Too few wipes are on record for Area 51 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 55 days 1 hours ago.

Tags, lists

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Area 51?

These are the tags Area 51 makes public for the server browser to read: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp10 (Max players): Player slots: 10; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs163794 (Build): The game build is 163794; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Area 51 come up?

You will find Area 51 on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

What position does Area 51 hold among Rust servers?

Area 51 sits at #15,049 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top – of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on Area 51 tell you?

Area 51 is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 44 days 23 hours ago.

Getting on

What steps get you onto Area 51?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 51.89.195.13:26000, 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?,v2633,gmvanilla,cs163794,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp10
Max players Player slots: 10.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs163794
Build The game build is 163794.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.

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.