The Rust Server
202.189.16.197:28246 checked 19d ago
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, measured since 25 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 25 Sep, 12:34 UTC19d ago | 0 | – | running | 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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Quick answers
Server rules
Which settings and rules apply on The Rust Server?
There is no gather rate in the name The Rust Server. That is the game's default: groups of up to 8 players. It runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Other players can be fought and raided. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, from Valve.
What is the map on The Rust Server?
Size 3,000, seed 966264843, generated by the game: the procedural map on The Rust Server. From this page, RustMaps can show it: size and seed produce the same map each time.
Server population
How full is The Rust Server?
Last seen 19 days 12 hours ago, The Rust Server is offline at the moment.
Where does The Rust Server sit in the rankings?
In the top 71% of ranked servers, The Rust Server holds #16,320 for player hours over the last seven days.
Tags and filters
What do The Rust Server's tags indicate?
For the game's server browser, The Rust Server publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp40 (Max players): It holds 40 players; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the standard team limit of 8; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): There's no region code here. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Where does The Rust Server appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
These Rust Zerg Life lists include The Rust Server: Rust community servers for clans. Under these filters it shows on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
How reliable is The Rust Server, and is it up?
The Rust Server is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 19 days 12 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, which is 0%. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 25 September 2026.
What Rust version is The Rust Server on?
On Linux, The Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, which Steam updates automatically.
Where can you find The Rust Server?
No region is published by The Rust Server. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. You can reach it at 202.189.16.197:28246.
Wipe schedule
What can you expect on wipe day on The Rust Server?
The average peak for its recent wipes was 0 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What schedule does The Rust Server follow for wipes?
So few of The Rust Server's wipes are recorded that its rhythm cannot be told yet. Come Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe arrives for every Rust server. The world in play right now was made 19 days 12 hours ago.
How to join
How can I connect to The Rust Server?
Join by entering client.connect 202.189.16.197:28246 in the console (press F1 first). Or use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://minekuai.com.
Server tags
Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2633
cs165217
ptrak
$r?
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.