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

A Rust Server

Online 176.9.1.166:25134 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,412top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe14d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020008:0017:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

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 17 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

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

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

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

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+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
Tue 13 Oct, 20:19 UTC14d ago 0 – 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

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. It appears under these filters 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?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from A Rust Server: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): There are 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank A Rust Server at #15,412, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

The current tally at A Rust Server: 0 players across 40 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server facts

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

A Rust Server is live at the moment. About 14 days 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 114 server fps, with a low of 70. At its peak it held 47,521 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 3,570 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. You'll find it at 176.9.1.166:25134.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

On Linux, A Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

The record of A Rust Server'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 14 days 10 hours.

The rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1, the map on A Rust Server is procedural and 3,000 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 176.9.1.166:25134. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players There are 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build It's on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code 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.