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
203.16.163.250:26993
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 640 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 203.16.163.250:26993
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 14 Sep 2026, 18:45 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 15 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 PolarisRP's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of PolarisRP. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, 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, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on PolarisRP?
The map on PolarisRP is procedural, size 2,800, generated with seed 1197756383 by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do PolarisRP's tags signify?
These tags come from PolarisRP and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp40 (Max players): 40 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2633 or the door stays shut; cs163794 (Build): Build 163794; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does PolarisRP appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find PolarisRP: 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 info
Is PolarisRP laggy?
The 48-hour average was 188 server fps; the floor was 146. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 38,904 entities. It drew as much as 3,677 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of PolarisRP?
No region is published by PolarisRP. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 203.16.163.250:26993.
How often is PolarisRP online?
Right now PolarisRP is live. A restart happened about 14 days 21 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 15 September 2026.
What Rust version is PolarisRP using?
On Linux, PolarisRP runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
When does PolarisRP wipe?
With so few of PolarisRP's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 24 days 14 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
What's PolarisRP's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #15,899 on seven-day player hours, PolarisRP is in the top 70% overall.
Is PolarisRP busy?
Right now, 0 players are on PolarisRP, which has 40 slots. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
How to join
What's the process to join PolarisRP?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 203.16.163.250:26993. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.