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A Rust Server

Online 64.40.8.189:34015 checked 14m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,323top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe18d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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 11 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k11 Oct15 Oct18 Oct22 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

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The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

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.

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

These are the tags A Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $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; ^x (Unknown flag): No documentation from Facepunch covers this flag. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank A Rust Server at #15,323, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

The current tally at A Rust Server: 0 players across 40 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server details

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

Right now, A Rust Server is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 22 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 11 October 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 30. At its peak it held 107,450 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 16,412 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

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 64.40.8.189:34015.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

On Linux, A Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for A Rust Server to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 18 days 7 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1160579413, the map on A Rust Server is procedural and 5,000 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. On the map name: Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is off.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 64.40.8.189:34015. 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,cs168909,^z,^y,^x,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$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.

Other

^x
Unknown flag No documentation from Facepunch covers this flag.

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.