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Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published A Rust Server Onlineright now
Celebrity profile

A Rust Server

Online 166.1.144.13:25957 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,273top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe22d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020007:0016:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

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 21 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k21 Sep29 Sep7 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

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

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

3.5 days
usual gap
between real wipes
33%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 9 OctWed 7 OctWed 30 Sep
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 9 Oct, 03:32 UTC21d ago 0 – running 0
Wed 7 Oct, 21:24 UTC22d ago 1 – 1.3 days 0
Wed 30 Sep, 06:41 UTC30d ago 3 halved by day 1 7.6 days 0
Sat 26 Sep, 17:58 UTC33d ago 5+1 queue halved by day 1 3.5 days 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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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include A Rust Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include A Rust Server: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

For the server browser, A Rust Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): There are 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs167398 (Build): It's on game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place A Rust Server at #15,273, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

A Rust Server is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

Is A Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, A Rust Server is up and running. About 18 days 2 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 21 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 100, and it never went below 10. The world carried as many as 47,320 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,667 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is A Rust Server located?

There is no region from A Rust Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 166.1.144.13:25957.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 is the version A Rust Server runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on A Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 1 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

There is no next wipe to predict on A Rust Server, because wipes come at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. Its current world has been live for 22 days 9 hours.

The rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The procedural map on A Rust Server measures 3,000 and comes from the game with seed 1. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 166.1.144.13:25957. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://aurorix.net.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp40
Max players There are 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634.
cs167398
Build It's on game build 167398.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been 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.