A Rust Server
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 70%.
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
205.166.28.158:28015
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
Down 473 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 205.166.28.158:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 7 Sep 2026, 16:08 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 A Rust Server use?
No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. It uses the default group size of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Oxide. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on A Rust Server?
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 1337 is in use on A Rust Server, made by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on A Rust Server?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp40 (Max players): 40 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2633 to get in; cs164530 (Build): Build 164530; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays are the tags A Rust Server puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
What Boongarust lists feature A Rust Server?
The Boongarust lists that take A Rust Server are: 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.
Server details
What's the location of A Rust Server?
From A Rust Server, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 205.166.28.158:28015.
How reliable is A Rust Server?
Offline now, A Rust Server was last seen 4 days 23 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 35% uptime, with 59 hours up out of 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is A Rust Server using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Linux: that is A Rust Server. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
How often does A Rust Server wipe?
The record holds too few of A Rust Server's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. 30 days 17 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
What's A Rust Server's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, A Rust Server is #16,584 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is A Rust Server busy?
A Rust Server last showed life 4 days 23 hours ago; it is offline now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
How to join
How can you get into A Rust Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 205.166.28.158:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. Find it at https://moonlesshosting.com.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.