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rust.luthor.consulting

Online 178.18.252.99:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,405top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe42d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123423:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 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 15 Sep, 16:05 UTC42d 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 rust.luthor.consulting?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include rust.luthor.consulting: 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 rust.luthor.consulting mean?

These are the tags rust.luthor.consulting publishes for the browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2633; cs163794 (Build): The game build is 163794; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does rust.luthor.consulting rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,405 puts rust.luthor.consulting in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on rust.luthor.consulting right now?

rust.luthor.consulting is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server facts

Is rust.luthor.consulting online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, rust.luthor.consulting is up and running. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Where is rust.luthor.consulting located?

No region is published by rust.luthor.consulting. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 178.18.252.99:28015.

Which Rust version is rust.luthor.consulting on?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794 is the version rust.luthor.consulting runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on rust.luthor.consulting when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on rust.luthor.consulting?

Too few wipes are on record for rust.luthor.consulting to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 42 days 6 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does rust.luthor.consulting run?

The map on rust.luthor.consulting is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on rust.luthor.consulting?

No gather rate appears in the name of rust.luthor.consulting. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join rust.luthor.consulting?

Enter client.connect 178.18.252.99:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmvanilla,cs163794,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2633.
cs163794
Build The game build is 163794.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.