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rasterword

Offline 176.118.197.57:28015 checked 41d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 500 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,411no region published
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe41d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23 Sep24 Sep25 Sep
The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

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

Past seasons

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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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include rasterword?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include rasterword: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it 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 rasterword mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from rasterword: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp500 (Max players): There are 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2633 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2633; cs164530 (Build): It's on game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does rasterword rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,411 puts rasterword in the top – of all ranked servers.

How many players are on rasterword right now?

rasterword went quiet 41 days 8 hours ago and is offline at the moment.

Server details

Is rasterword online, and how reliable is it?

rasterword shows as offline, last spotted 41 days 8 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 0, a 0% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 18 September 2026.

Where is rasterword located?

No region is published by rasterword. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 176.118.197.57:28015.

Which Rust version is rasterword on?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 is the version rasterword runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on rasterword?

The record of rasterword's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 41 days 8 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does rasterword run?

The map on rasterword is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on rasterword?

No gather rate appears in the name of rasterword. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join rasterword?

Enter client.connect 176.118.197.57:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp500
Max players There are 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2633
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2633.
cs164530
Build It's on game build 164530.
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.