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Rust START Server

Online 212.22.93.105:28034 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 1 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#15,013top 67%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe19d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0001:0009:0019:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608007:0016:0001:0009:0019:0004:00

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 Sep26 Sep12 Oct17 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 67% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

19.6 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

7d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 12hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 9 OctSat 19 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 45 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 9 Oct, 07:43 UTC19d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 19 Sep, 17:10 UTC39d ago 1 held half 19.6 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 Rust START Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rust START 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; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Rust START Server mean?

These are the tags Rust START Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp1 (Max players): It has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167231 (Build): The game build is 167231; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe. 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 Rust START Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,013 puts Rust START Server in the top 67% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust START Server right now?

Rust START Server is holding 0 players, with 1 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.

Server facts

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

As of now, Rust START Server is online. About 17 days 20 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Rust START Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 65, and it never went below 59. The world carried as many as 48,046 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 4,330 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rust START Server located?

There is no region from Rust START Server. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 212.22.93.105:28034.

Which Rust version is Rust START Server on?

On Windows, Rust START Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

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

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 45 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust START Server?

Rust START Server wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 19 days 22 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust START Server run?

The procedural map on Rust START Server measures 3,000 and comes from the game with seed 1605290779. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust START Server?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rust START 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.

Join up

How do I join Rust START Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 212.22.93.105:28034. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167231,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp1
Max players It has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs167231
Build The game build is 167231.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

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.