Offline 5.18.253.158:28015 checked 11d ago
ALFA
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 500 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 64% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 14 Oct, 15:33 UTC13d ago | 1 | – | running | 1 |
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 ALFA online, and how reliable is it?
ALFA sits offline; 11 days 11 hours ago is when it was last seen. 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 0 of 168 hours up. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 25 September 2026.
Which Rust version is ALFA on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows: that is the setup at ALFA. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is ALFA located?
There is no region published on ALFA. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. The address you connect to is 5.18.253.158:28015.
Tags
What do the server tags on ALFA mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival as standard; mp500 (Max players): It holds 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: join only if your game matches that version; cs167781 (Build): It runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one are the tags ALFA publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include ALFA?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include ALFA are: Community servers, ranked live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Map and rules
What are the rules and settings on ALFA?
No gather rate appears in the name of ALFA. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. gather, build, raid: the standard game: that is the survival game mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its server browser category. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Player counts
What is the population on ALFA at the moment?
The board shows ALFA offline, last seen 11 days 11 hours ago.
Where does ALFA sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place ALFA at #13,766, among the top 64% of ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on ALFA?
The record holds too few of ALFA's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now was made 13 days 8 hours ago.
What does wipe day look like on ALFA?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 1 players. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join ALFA?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 5.18.253.158:28015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp500
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.