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Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,432, its rank

253

Online 85.190.161.104:11200 checked 7m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,432top 69%
Last wipe25d 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
AveragePeak
0123414:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

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
02.557.51014:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

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 3 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k3 Oct8 Oct13 Oct18 Oct23 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% 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

Server setup

What map is in play on 253?

253 runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 6738; the game generates it. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What settings and rules apply on 253?

Nothing in the name of 253 gives a gather rate. 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. Raids and player fights are part of play here. You will find it under Community in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which location is 253 based in?

Nothing about a region is published by 253. 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 85.190.161.104:11200.

On what Rust version does 253 operate?

On Windows, 253 is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How dependable is 253 for staying online?

253 is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 6 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. On 3 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Does 253 hold a steady performance?

Server fps averaged 10 over the last 48 hours, with 10 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 66,317 entities. Up to 2,104 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe schedule

How often does a wipe happen on 253, and at what time?

Too few wipes are on record for 253 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 25 days 3 hours ago.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on 253?

gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): Player slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here: that is the tag list 253 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 253 appear in?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include 253 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.

Player counts

Against other Rust servers, where does 253 place?

Player hours over the last week put 253 at #15,432, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players does 253 have at the moment?

Of 50 slots, 0 are taken on 253 right now. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.

How to join

How can you connect to 253?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 85.190.161.104:11200. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players Player slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

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.