253
85.190.161.104:11200 checked 9m 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 3 Oct. 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
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| 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
Quick answers
Rules and settings
Which settings and rules apply on 253?
There is no gather rate in the name 253. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the regular game. Other players can be fought and raided. Community is its section in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, from Valve.
What is the map on 253?
Size 3,500, seed 6738, generated by the game: the procedural map on 253. From this page, RustMaps can show it: size and seed produce the same map each time.
Player count
What is the population like on 253?
The server 253 is currently at 0 players out of 50 slots. Averaged over the last week, the player count is 0.
Where does 253 sit in the rankings?
For player hours over the last week, 253 is #15,974, which puts it in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Lists and tags
How should you read the tags on 253?
For the game's server browser, 253 publishes these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Vanilla survival gameplay; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game's default; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left unset. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Where does 253 appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
Rust community servers for clans: that is where you will find 253 among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
About the server
Is 253 currently online and stable?
Right now, 253 is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 14 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, which is 100%. The first time Rust Zerg Life saw it was on 3 October 2026.
Is 253 smooth to play on?
It averaged 10 server fps over the last 48 hours, and the lowest it got was 10. It reached a maximum of 65,942 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 2,018 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
Which Rust build does 253 use?
On Windows, 253 runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam will update your game to that protocol.
Where can you find 253?
No region is published by 253. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. Connect to it at 85.190.161.104:11200.
Wipe days
How often does 253 wipe, and on what days?
With so few wipes on record for 253, its pattern is not yet clear. Come Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe arrives for every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 10 days 15 hours ago.
Connect
How can I connect to 253?
You can join by opening the console with F1 and typing client.connect 85.190.161.104:11200. Or hit Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs167781
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.