Element card · group Community · atomic number 5,293, its rank
The Empire
Online 85.190.162.224:10400 checked 8m 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, measured since 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 24% of all ranked servers, and #355 of the trio servers (top 57%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 38 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 03:43 UTC20d ago | 2 | – | 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageSettings and map
What map is in play on The Empire?
A procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 6738 runs on The Empire, generated by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
What rules has The Empire set, and what settings are in force?
Nothing in the name of The Empire gives a gather rate. You get up to 3 players per group (trio). Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.
Server details
Which location is The Empire based in?
Nothing about a region is published by The Empire. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 85.190.162.224:10400 is the address it uses.
Which Rust version is The Empire on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what The Empire uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
Does The Empire stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?
At the moment, The Empire is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 3 October 2026.
Is The Empire known for smooth running?
The last 48 hours show an average of 10 server fps and a minimum of 10. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 95,046 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,268 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
How often does a wipe happen on The Empire, and at what time?
Too few wipes are on record for The Empire to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 20 days 6 hours ago.
How does The Empire look on the day of a wipe?
Recent wipes on average reached 2 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's peak fell 38 hours after it began.
Lists and tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Empire?
The game's server browser reads the tags The Empire publishes, which are gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts3 (Group limit): Teams cap at 3 players; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 The Empire come up?
You will find The Empire on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured and Trio Rust servers, measured live. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: Trio.
Player counts
Against other Rust servers, where does The Empire place?
Player hours over the last week put The Empire at #5,293, inside the top 24% of ranked servers. In the trio category it ranks #355.
How full is The Empire right now?
The Empire currently shows 0 players across 50 slots. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 3 at the top. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 13:00 UTC, at 0 players.
Getting on
What steps get you onto The Empire?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 85.190.162.224:10400, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.