The Rust Experiment
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 35%.
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
173.170.243.109:28015
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 4478 places on last week. Top 35% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
WIPE 6! Vanilla. Active admins. Zero tolerence for cheating. Low pop. Beginner Friendly. Skilled players welcome too! Serial offliners that target obviously new/unskilled players bases are not welcome. Just wiped 9/3! We have a discord now! https://discord.gg/qYnNn42a66 If you encounter any issues or have feedback, blurt it out in global, discord or email to therustexperiment@gmail.com
Spec sheet
- Address
- 173.170.243.109:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 00:49 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 The Rust Experiment use?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Experiment. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, 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 is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on The Rust Experiment?
The Rust Experiment uses a procedural map of 3,500 that the game generates with seed 609568408. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
How should you read the tags on The Rust Experiment?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Build 167231; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags The Rust Experiment puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature The Rust Experiment?
The Boongarust lists that take The Rust Experiment 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
Is The Rust Experiment laggy?
The 48-hour average was 30 server fps; the floor was 30. At its peak, it held 64,702 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 1,870 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the location of The Rust Experiment?
No region comes from The Rust Experiment. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 173.170.243.109:28015.
How often is The Rust Experiment online?
The Rust Experiment is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 20 minutes ago. 168 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 100% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does The Rust Experiment have?
On Windows, The Rust Experiment runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
Wipe day at The Rust Experiment: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 26 hours after it.
When does The Rust Experiment wipe?
With so few of The Rust Experiment's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 6 days 17 hours old.
Population
Where does The Rust Experiment sit in the rankings?
In the top 35% of all ranked servers, The Rust Experiment is #8,080 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is The Rust Experiment busy?
The Rust Experiment is showing 0 players on 50 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 21:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.
How to join
What's the process to join The Rust Experiment?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.