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
173.249.253.68:28020
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
Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 173.249.253.68:28020
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 2
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 16 Sep 2026, 20:10 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 16 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 are Emulation Diag's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of Emulation Diag. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC is off: Valve's anti-cheat is not running.
What's the map on Emulation Diag?
A procedural map is in use on Emulation Diag, made by the game.
Tags
What do Emulation Diag's tags signify?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp2 (Max players): Slot count: 2; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2633 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2633 to get in; cs163207 (Build): Running build 163207; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags Emulation Diag puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature Emulation Diag?
The Boongarust lists that take Emulation Diag are: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
What's the location of Emulation Diag?
From Emulation Diag, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 173.249.253.68:28020.
How reliable is Emulation Diag?
Last seen 22 days 15 hours ago, Emulation Diag is offline at the moment. Last 7 full days: 0% uptime, with 0 hours up out of 168. 16 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does Emulation Diag have?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207 on Windows: that is Emulation Diag. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
When does Emulation Diag wipe?
With so few of Emulation Diag's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 22 days 15 hours old.
Population
What's Emulation Diag's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put Emulation Diag at #15,509, in the top – of all ranked servers.
Is Emulation Diag busy?
Offline. Emulation Diag was last seen 22 days 15 hours ago.
How to join
How do you connect to Emulation Diag?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 173.249.253.68:28020. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.