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
161.97.151.244:25565
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
Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 161.97.151.244:25565
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 4 Oct 2026, 01:23 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 3 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does A Rust Server use?
No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on A Rust Server?
The map on A Rust Server is procedural, created by the game.
Server tags
What do A Rust Server's tags signify?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record are the tags A Rust Server 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 A Rust Server?
The Boongarust lists that take A Rust Server are: 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 week.
Server details
Where can you find A Rust Server?
No region is published by A Rust Server. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 161.97.151.244:25565.
How often is A Rust Server online?
Last seen 4 days 4 hours ago, A Rust Server is offline at the moment. Uptime over the last 4 full days came to 2%, 2 hours from 96. The first record Boongarust has is 3 October 2026.
Which Rust build does A Rust Server have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is A Rust Server. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
Wipe day at A Rust Server: what's it like?
Recent wipes peaked at 0 players on average. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
A Rust Server wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of A Rust Server's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 4 days 4 hours old.
Player counts
What's A Rust Server's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, A Rust Server is #16,599 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is A Rust Server busy?
A Rust Server last showed life 4 days 4 hours ago; it is offline now. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
Join the server
What's the process to join A Rust Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 161.97.151.244:25565. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.