Online 98.96.163.210:28015 checked 7m ago
Rust Server
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 10 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 17 Sep. 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.
Server details
Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?
Online now, Rust Server is up. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 5 days 7 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 100% of the time. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does Rust Server run smoothly?
Averaging 92 server fps across the last 48 hours, it held a floor of 75. Up to 151,458 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. The memory ceiling was 3,957 MB. A climbing entity count plus low fps: that is lag, as players experience it.
Which Rust version is Rust Server on?
Linux carries Rust network protocol 2621 and build 142930 at Rust Server. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is Rust Server located?
Nothing on Rust Server states a region. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 98.96.163.210:28015 is the address.
Tags
What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?
gmrust (Game mode): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the game default; v2621 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2621; cs142930 (Build): The game build here is 142930; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set are the tags Rust Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Rust Server?
These Rust Player Stats lists take Rust Server: Community servers, ranked live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on Rust Server?
Size 4,500, seed 1337: that is the procedural map Rust Server runs, generated by the game. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. gather, build, raid: the standard game: that is the survival game mode. You can fight and raid other players here. Community is its server browser category. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Player counts
How full is Rust Server right now?
The board shows Rust Server at 0 players, with 10 slots in total. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Where does Rust Server sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place Rust Server at #15,348, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?
To tell its rhythm, more of Rust Server's wipes need to be on record. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 259 days 9 hours ago is when its current world was made.
How to join
How do I join Rust Server?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 98.96.163.210:28015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2621,gmrust,cs142930,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp10
ts8
v2621
cs142930
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.