Rust Data LabData lab · live
Live readings Servers11,888 Players103,803 Populated3,995 Fresh wipes · 3h419 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 16,568, its rank

RustWales

Offline 81.152.163.216:28015 checked 33d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#16,568top 71%
Last wipe347d 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
15k10k15k20k26 Sep27 Sep29 Sep30 Sep2 Oct3 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 RustWales?

A procedural map runs on RustWales, generated by the game.

How is RustWales configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustWales. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

In what location does RustWales sit?

No region comes from RustWales; it does give uk1 as its region code. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. You will find it at 81.152.163.216:28015.

Which Rust version is RustWales on?

Rust network protocol 2604 and build 137038 on Windows is what RustWales uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How dependable is RustWales for staying online?

Currently offline, RustWales was last seen 33 days 14 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 26 September 2026.

Wipe schedule

How often does a wipe happen on RustWales, and at what time?

The record holds too few of RustWales's wipes to show its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 347 days 2 hours ago.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on RustWales?

The game's server browser reads the tags RustWales publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2604 (Protocol): Protocol 2604 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs137038 (Build): The game build is 137038; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $ruk1 (Region code): Its region code reads uk1. 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 RustWales come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include RustWales are: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

Against other Rust servers, where does RustWales place?

Player hours over the last week put RustWales at #16,568, inside the top 71% of ranked servers.

How full is RustWales right now?

RustWales is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 33 days 14 hours ago.

Getting on

What steps get you onto RustWales?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 81.152.163.216:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$ruk1,v2604,gmrust,cs137038,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2604
Protocol Protocol 2604 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs137038
Build The game build is 137038.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$ruk1
Region code Its region code reads uk1.

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.