Rust Data LabData lab · live
Live readings Servers11,711 Players67,607 Populated3,578 Fresh wipes · 3h110 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,423, its rank

A Rust Server

Online 86.174.131.251:28016 checked 11m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 40 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,423top 69%
Last wipe26d 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
0123413:0022:0007:0016:0001:0010:00

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
010020030040013:0022:0007:0016:0001:0010:00

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 24 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
15k10k15k20k24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 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

Settings and map

What map is in play on A Rust Server?

A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 31833 runs on A Rust Server, 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 A Rust Server set, and what settings are in force?

The name of A Rust Server carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, 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

What region hosts A Rust Server?

No region is published by A Rust Server. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 86.174.131.251:28016 is the address it uses.

What Rust version does A Rust Server currently run?

On Linux, A Rust Server 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 A Rust Server for staying online?

A Rust Server is live as of now. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 hours ago. It was online for 72 of 72 hours in the last 3 full days, which is 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 24 October 2026.

How well does A Rust Server perform?

Server fps averaged 164 over the last 48 hours, with 42 as the lowest. The maximum entity count was 51,063, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use peaked at 1,786 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe schedule

How often does a wipe happen on A Rust Server, and at what time?

The record holds too few of A Rust Server'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. 26 days 10 hours ago the current world was made.

Lists and tags

How should you read the tags on A Rust Server?

The game's server browser reads the tags A Rust Server publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): Player slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank. 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 A Rust Server appear in?

You will find A Rust Server on the following Rust Data Lab lists: 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.

Population

What position does A Rust Server hold among Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week put A Rust Server at #15,423, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on A Rust Server tell you?

Of 40 slots, 0 are taken on A Rust Server right now. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.

How to join

How can you connect to A Rust Server?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 86.174.131.251:28016. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players Player slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

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.