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Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published A Rust Server Onlineright now
Celebrity profile

A Rust Server

Online 81.167.215.251:21305 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full −1−100%against this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#5,070top 23%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe4d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75119:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 22 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
15k10k15k20k22 Oct23 Oct25 Oct26 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 23% 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.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+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
Sat 24 Oct, 19:10 UTC4d ago 2 – running 1

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 Rust Pop Watch lists include A Rust Server: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

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): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. 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?

The last seven days of player hours place A Rust Server at #5,070, in the top 23% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

0 players are on A Rust Server at the moment, out of 40 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 12:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server details

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

As of now, A Rust Server is online. About 3 days 23 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 144 hours in the last 6 full days, it was online for 143, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 22 October 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 176 server fps, with a low of 139. The world carried as many as 94,939 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 3,336 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. You'll find it at 81.167.215.251:21305.

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.

The wipe schedule

What happens on A Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 1 hours after it began.

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. 4 days 23 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does A Rust Server run?

A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 102070 is what A Rust Server runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

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. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join A Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 81.167.215.251:21305. 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,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

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.