Online 188.42.131.180:28015 checked 7m ago
Sober Rust
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 50 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, measured since 12 Oct. 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.
Operator and location
Is Sober Rust online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at Sober Rust: online as you read this. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 16 days 23 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. The first record Rust Player Stats has of it is 12 October 2026.
Does Sober Rust run smoothly?
The last 48 hours average out at 60 server fps; it never dropped below 59. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world pushed the entity count to 45,034. Memory use reached 3,478 MB. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is Sober Rust on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows: that is the setup at Sober Rust. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is Sober Rust located?
Nothing on Sober Rust states a region. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. 188.42.131.180:28015 is the address.
Tags
What do the server tags on Sober Rust mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags from Sober Rust: gmvanilla (Game mode): It's vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to get in; cs167398 (Build): The game build here is 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one. You will also find its current players, its queue and the age of its world in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Sober Rust?
You will find Sober Rust on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Community servers, ranked live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Map and rules
Which map is running on Sober Rust?
The procedural map on Sober Rust is size 3,000, generated by the game from seed 612351. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Sober Rust?
The name of Sober Rust does not say what the gather rate is. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. It plays as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP is on, and so is raiding. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Population
How full is Sober Rust right now?
The board shows Sober Rust at 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does Sober Rust sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place Sober Rust at #15,341, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on Sober Rust?
To tell its rhythm, more of Sober Rust's wipes need to be on record. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it runs now was made 17 days 1 hours ago.
Connect
How do I join Sober Rust?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 188.42.131.180:28015. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You will find the website at https://low.ms/game-servers/rust-server-hosting.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs167398
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.