The Rust Server
Online 43.226.128.236:17280 checked 8m 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 27 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 65% 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.
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What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Server?
Not enough of The Rust Server's wipes are on record yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 1 October at 18:00 UTC. Its current world was made 40 hours ago.
Players
How busy is The Rust Server?
Right now The Rust Server has 0 players on 40 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 1. In the last 48 hours it was busiest at 11:00 UTC, with 0 players on average.
How does The Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
The Rust Server is #15,056 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 65% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Server?
The Rust Server 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. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does The Rust Server run?
The Rust Server runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 4,250 with seed 1112022. 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 Server mean?
The Rust Server publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): 40 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. 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 Server?
The Rust Server fits these Zongarust lists: Best Rust community servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
The server
Where is The Rust Server located?
The Rust Server publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 43.226.128.236:17280.
Is The Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?
The Rust Server is online right now. It last restarted about 6 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 1 full day it was up 100% of the time, 24 of 24 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 27 September 2026.
Does The Rust Server run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 202 server fps on average, never below 64. It carried up to 101,648 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 3,152 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does The Rust Server run?
The Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join The Rust Server?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 43.226.128.236:17280. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Its website is https://minekuai.com.