The Rust Experiment
Online NA 173.170.243.109:28015 checked 4m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 35% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 1 October, 18:00 UTC, in 2d 16h. The 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
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
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What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Experiment?
The Rust Experiment's next wipe is an estimate from the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 1 October at 18:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 25 days 7 hours ago. It publishes a monthly wipe schedule in its tags.
Players
How busy is The Rust Experiment?
Right now The Rust Experiment has 0 players on 50 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 1.
How does The Rust Experiment rank against other Rust servers?
The Rust Experiment is #8,045 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 35% of all ranked servers and #1,193 in North America.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Experiment?
The Rust Experiment gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is a community server, listed under Community in the server browser. It calls itself vanilla: the game as Facepunch ships it: no changed rates, kits or rules. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does The Rust Experiment run?
The Rust Experiment runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 3,500 with seed 609594408. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on The Rust Experiment mean?
The Rust Experiment publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs165217 (Build): Game build 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The game as Facepunch ships it: no changed rates, kits or rules; NA (North America): Listed under North America in the server browser. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include The Rust Experiment?
The Rust Experiment fits these Zongarust lists: Best Rust community servers, Best US Rust servers and Best vanilla Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The server
Where is The Rust Experiment located?
The Rust Experiment lists itself in North America with its NA tag. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 173.170.243.109:28015.
Is The Rust Experiment online, and how reliable is it?
The Rust Experiment is online right now. It last restarted about 7 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.
Does The Rust Experiment run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 30 server fps on average, never below 30. It carried up to 69,773 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 2,923 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does The Rust Experiment run?
The Rust Experiment runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join The Rust Experiment?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.