Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
138.74.237.80:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 6644 places on last week. Top 34% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 138.74.237.80:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 1
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 5 Oct 2026, 21:59 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 29 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What settings does Alpha use?
The name of Alpha does not include a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Alpha?
The map on Alpha is procedural, created by the game.
Server tags
What do Alpha's tags signify?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): Room for 1; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record are the tags Alpha puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
What Boongarust lists feature Alpha?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Alpha: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
Server info
What's the physical location of Alpha?
From Alpha, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 138.74.237.80:28015.
What's the uptime like on Alpha?
Last seen 23 hours ago, Alpha is offline at the moment. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 8%, 13 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 29 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Alpha have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows: that is Alpha. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at Alpha?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 1 hours after it.
How often does Alpha wipe?
The record holds too few of Alpha's wipes to tell its rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 2 days 6 hours old.
Player counts
Where does Alpha sit in the rankings?
In the top 34% of all ranked servers, Alpha is #8,040 on player hours over the last seven days.
What's the player count on Alpha?
Alpha last showed life 23 hours ago; it is offline now. It averaged 1 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 14:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join Alpha?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 138.74.237.80:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.