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A Rust Server

Online 5.141.88.140:20021 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,341top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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 19 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. 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.

11.6 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctSun 20 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, 3 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 05:30 UTC27d ago 2 – running 0
Sun 20 Sep, 16:02 UTC38d ago 1 halved by day 1 11.6 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.

Lists and tags

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

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include A Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

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): There are 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,341 puts A Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

The current tally at A Rust Server: 0 players across 40 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

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

As of now, A Rust Server is online. About 1 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 19 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 120, and it never went below 120. At its peak it held 8,791 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 3,475 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. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 5.141.88.140:20021.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

On Linux, A Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781. 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?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 3 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 1 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

A Rust Server's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. Its current world has been live for 27 days 1 hours.

The rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

A procedural map of 1,000 with seed 1 is what A Rust Server runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

The name of A Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join A Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 5.141.88.140:20021. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp40
Max players There are 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
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.