Essen City
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 30%.
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.
Reset receipt
185.244.0.17:26286
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 30% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 185.244.0.17:26286
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 10
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- resets constantly
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 5 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 settings does Essen City use?
There is no gather rate in the name of Essen City. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Essen City?
Essen City uses a procedural map of 3,500 that the game generates with seed 638943830. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Server tags
What are the tags on Essen City for?
These tags come from Essen City and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp10 (Max players): Room for 10; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Running build 167231; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game. 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.
Where does Essen City appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Essen City: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.
Server details
How smooth is Essen City?
Server fps held an average of 87 across the last 48 hours, minimum 3. At its peak, it held 90,636 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,427 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Essen City?
From Essen City, there is no region. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 185.244.0.17:26286.
How reliable is Essen City?
Right now Essen City is live. A restart happened about 3 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 2 full days came to 100%, 48 hours from 48. The first record Boongarust has is 5 October 2026.
What Rust version is Essen City using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Linux: that is Essen City. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
When does Essen City wipe?
Every few hours Essen City starts a new world. It keeps no wipe schedule, and none of those resets is a wipe.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Essen City place?
Player hours over seven days put Essen City at #7,043, in the top 30% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on Essen City?
Essen City is showing 1 players on 10 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 1. It was busiest at 23:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 1 players on average.
Join the server
What's the process to join Essen City?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 185.244.0.17:26286. 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.