Offline 178.158.221.43:28015 checked 3d ago
hard
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 2 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
ResultsWipes
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 wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
About the server
Is hard online, and how reliable is it?
Offline right now, with a last sighting 3 days 9 hours ago: hard. 1% of the time over the last 6 full days, which is 1 of 144 hours up. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 20 October 2026.
Which Rust version is hard on?
Windows carries Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 at hard. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is hard located?
No region is published by hard. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. You will find it at 178.158.221.43:28015.
Tags
What do the server tags on hard mean?
gmrust (Game mode): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp2 (Max players): Slot count: 2; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: join only if your game matches that version; cs167781 (Build): It runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank are the tags hard publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include hard?
These Rust Player Stats lists take hard: Community servers, ranked live. Under the server list's filters it appears in: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on hard?
hard runs a map the game generates: procedural.
What are the rules and settings on hard?
The name of hard does not say what the gather rate is. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. It plays as survival, build, gather and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players here. You will find it listed as Community. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Player counts
How full is hard right now?
The board shows hard offline, last seen 3 days 9 hours ago. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does hard sit in the rankings?
Ranked #15,404 on seven-day player hours, hard is in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on hard?
The rhythm of hard's wipes cannot be told yet, because not enough are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now was made 11 days 9 hours ago.
How to join
How do I join hard?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 178.158.221.43:28015. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp2
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.