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
173.81.2.227:28015
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
Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 173.81.2.227:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 500
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- –
- 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.
Server rules
What are Elias's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Elias. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, 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. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on Elias?
A procedural map is in use on Elias, made by the game.
Tags
What do Elias's tags signify?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp500 (Max players): 500 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record are the tags Elias puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show Elias?
The Boongarust lists that take Elias are: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
What's the location of Elias?
From Elias, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 173.81.2.227:28015.
How often is Elias online?
Elias is down, with the last sighting 4 days 12 hours ago. Last 4 full days: 0% uptime, with 0 hours up out of 96. The first record Boongarust has is 3 October 2026.
What Rust version is Elias using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows: that is Elias. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
When does Elias wipe?
The record holds too few of Elias's wipes to tell its rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC.
Population
What's Elias's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put Elias at #16,639, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on Elias?
Offline. Elias was last seen 4 days 12 hours ago. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
Join the server
What's the process to join Elias?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 173.81.2.227:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.