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A Rust Server

Online 37.230.228.133:28300 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#9,321top 42%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe6d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75115:0017:0018:0020:0021:0023:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304015:0017:0018:0020:0021:0023:00

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 42% of all ranked servers. 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.

3.3 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctTue 20 OctWed 7 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 23 Oct, 11:43 UTC6d ago 1 – running 2
Tue 20 Oct, 19:08 UTC9d ago 2 – 2.7 days 0
Wed 7 Oct, 13:34 UTC22d ago 2 held half 13.2 days 2
Mon 5 Oct, 15:33 UTC24d ago 2 – 1.9 days 1
Thu 1 Oct, 17:33 UTC FW28d ago 0 – 3.9 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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include A Rust Server?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include A Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

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): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; modded (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. 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?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #9,321 puts A Rust Server in the top 42% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

A Rust Server is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players. Look at 18:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.

Server facts

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

A Rust Server is live at the moment. About 5 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 3% of the time over the last 7 full days, 5 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 14 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 30. The world carried as many as 4,417 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 1,014 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. Connect at 37.230.228.133:28300.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version A Rust Server runs on Linux. 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?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

No next wipe can be predicted for A Rust Server: its wipes happen at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. The world it is running now dates from 6 days 12 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on A Rust Server is procedural and 1,000 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Micro Rust is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on A Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Carbon plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 37.230.228.133:28300 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y,modded

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.
modded
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.