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A-42 | Development

Online EU 37.187.135.158:29015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 42 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,310top 69% · #2542 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe18d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 87% in EU. 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.

13.5 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sun 11 OctThu 1 OctMon 14 Sep
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 11 Oct, 14:52 UTC18d ago 2 – running 0
Thu 1 Oct, 20:03 UTC FW27d ago 0 – 9.8 days 0
Mon 14 Sep, 14:01 UTC45d ago 1 halved by day 2 17.3 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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include A-42 | Development?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include A-42 | Development: European Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Aim training servers, ranked by the crowd, Build and creative servers, live and Rust creative servers, watched. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Creative ^c, Minigames ^e, Combat training ^d, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on A-42 | Development mean?

For the server browser, A-42 | Development lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp42 (Max players): It has 42 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^c (Creative): It's creative sandbox: no gathering, just building what you like; ^e (Minigames): You'll find minigames such as arenas, Bedwars and parkour; ^d (Combat training): Practice your aim and PvP here; the loot is given to you; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does A-42 | Development rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, A-42 | Development sits at #15,310, inside the top 69% of ranked servers and at #2,542 in Europe.

How many players are on A-42 | Development right now?

The current tally at A-42 | Development: 0 players across 42 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

Is A-42 | Development online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, A-42 | Development is up and running. About 2 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 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does A-42 | Development run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 143, and it never went below 113. Entities reached a maximum of 34,410: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,057 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is A-42 | Development located?

In Europe, A-42 | Development lists itself with its EU tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 37.187.135.158:29015.

Which Rust version is A-42 | Development on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version A-42 | Development runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on A-42 | Development when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 2.

What is the wipe schedule on A-42 | Development?

There is no next wipe to predict on A-42 | Development, because wipes come at irregular times. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 18 days 3 hours.

The rules

Which map does A-42 | Development run?

The procedural map on A-42 | Development measures 6,000 and comes from the game with seed 1337. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on A-42 | Development?

No gather rate appears in the name of A-42 | Development. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. minigames & battle royale is the game mode, parkour, battle royale, Bedwars and arenas. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join A-42 | Development?

Enter client.connect 37.187.135.158:29015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/TQsD4Nh2SX.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp42,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^c,^e,^d,EU,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode This is vanilla survival.
mp42
Max players It has 42 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Gameplay

^c
Creative It's creative sandbox: no gathering, just building what you like.
^e
Minigames You'll find minigames such as arenas, Bedwars and parkour.
^d
Combat training Practice your aim and PvP here; the loot is given to you.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^y
Carbon This server uses Carbon for plugins.

Region

EU
Europe Its place in the server browser is under Europe.

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.