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Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,358, its rank

ME21

Online 81.16.176.157:7135 checked 9m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,358top 69%
Last wipe11d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes 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
AveragePeak
0123404:0013:0022:0006:0015:0001:00

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
025507510004:0013:0022:0006:0015:0001:00

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 17 Sep. 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 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 17 Oct, 17:50 UTC11d ago 0 – 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 ME21?

ME21 runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 2147483647; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

What settings and rules apply on ME21?

The name of ME21 carries no gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. It appears under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

About the server

Which location is ME21 based in?

No region is published by ME21. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 81.16.176.157:7135.

Which Rust version is ME21 on?

On Linux, ME21 is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

Does ME21 stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, ME21 is reachable. About 11 days 7 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

How well does ME21 perform?

The last 48 hours show an average of 71 server fps and a minimum of 21. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 117,756 entities. Up to 5,590 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipes and resets

How often does a wipe happen on ME21, and at what time?

ME21's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 11 days 9 hours ago the current world was made.

How does ME21 look on the day of a wipe?

Recent wipes on average reached 0 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags ME21 carries?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; 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): No region code is set: that is the tag list ME21 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 ME21 appear in?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include ME21 are: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Player counts

Against other Rust servers, where does ME21 place?

The seven-day player-hours table has ME21 at #15,358, in the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players does ME21 have at the moment?

ME21 currently shows 0 players across 40 slots. The past week gives an average of 0 players.

Connection

What is the way to join ME21?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 81.16.176.157:7135. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
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 No region code is set.

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.