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
217.45.85.24:28016
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
- 217.45.85.24:28016
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 01:18 UTC
- 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 A Rust Server's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of A Rust Server. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on A Rust Server?
The map on A Rust Server is procedural, size 3,000, generated with seed 31833 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
What are the tags on A Rust Server for?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record are the tags A Rust Server 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 A Rust Server?
The Boongarust lists that take A Rust Server 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; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
How smooth is A Rust Server?
Server fps held an average of 163 across the last 48 hours, minimum 54. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 50,164 entities. Memory use peaked at 1,782 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of A Rust Server?
No region comes from A Rust Server. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 217.45.85.24:28016.
How reliable is A Rust Server?
A Rust Server is up as you read this. A restart happened about 20 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. 72 hours out of 96 across the last 4 full days. 75% uptime. 3 October 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does A Rust Server have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is A Rust Server. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
A Rust Server wipes on what schedule?
A Rust Server's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are on was made 5 days 22 hours.
Player counts
What's A Rust Server's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, A Rust Server is #16,709 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is A Rust Server busy?
0 players are on A Rust Server at the moment, out of 40 slots. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join A Rust Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 217.45.85.24:28016. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.