RustServer
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 26%.
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
162.43.8.229:28015
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 344 places on last week. Top 26% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 162.43.8.229:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 500
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 01:11 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 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 RustServer use?
No gather rate appears in the name of RustServer. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on RustServer?
RustServer uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 923793624. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on RustServer?
These tags come from RustServer and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp500 (Max players): Room for 500; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. 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 RustServer?
On these Boongarust lists you will find RustServer: 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 info
How smooth is RustServer?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 77, with a low of 49. At its peak, it held 126,809 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,964 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find RustServer?
No region is published by RustServer. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 162.43.8.229:28015.
How reliable is RustServer?
RustServer is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 5 days 8 hours ago. 119 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 71% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does RustServer have?
On Linux, RustServer runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at RustServer?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 7 hours after it.
When does RustServer wipe?
RustServer wipes when it feels like it, so no next wipe can be predicted. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 5 days 9 hours old.
Player counts
Where does RustServer sit in the rankings?
In the top 26% of all ranked servers, RustServer is #6,087 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is RustServer busy?
Right now, 0 players are on RustServer, which has 500 slots. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 13:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join RustServer?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 162.43.8.229:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.