The Rust Server
Offline 43.227.71.245:20016 checked 33d ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Rust Server?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The Rust Server: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it 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 The Rust Server mean?
For the server browser, The Rust Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2633; cs165217 (Build): Game build: 165217; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does The Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #16,173 puts The Rust Server in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on The Rust Server right now?
Offline now, The Rust Server was last spotted 33 days 17 hours ago.
About the server
Is The Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?
The server The Rust Server is not online now; 33 days 17 hours have passed since it was last seen. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 24 September 2026.
Where is The Rust Server located?
No region is published by The Rust 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 43.227.71.245:20016.
Which Rust version is The Rust Server on?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 is the version The Rust Server runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Server?
The record of The Rust Server's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. 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 34 days 4 hours.
The rules
Which map does The Rust Server run?
The map on The Rust Server is procedural, made by the game.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Server?
The name of The Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. 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. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Join up
How do I join The Rust Server?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 43.227.71.245:20016. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.