The Rust Server
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 71%.
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
43.226.128.236:17280
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 1827 places on last week. Top 71% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 43.226.128.236:17280
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 27 Sep 2026, 13:39 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 27 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 The Rust Server's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on The Rust Server?
The Rust Server uses a procedural map of 4,250 that the game generates with seed 1112022. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What are the tags on The Rust Server for?
These tags come from The Rust Server and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2633 or the door stays shut; cs165217 (Build): Game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature The Rust Server?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for The Rust Server: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
What's the location of The Rust Server?
From The Rust Server, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 43.226.128.236:17280.
What's the uptime like on The Rust Server?
The Rust Server is down, with the last sighting 9 days 4 hours ago. 0 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 0% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 27 September 2026.
Which Rust build does The Rust Server have?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux: that is The Rust Server. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How often does The Rust Server wipe?
The record holds too few of The Rust Server's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. The world you are on was made 11 days 13 hours.
Population
Where does The Rust Server sit in the rankings?
Ranked #16,850 on seven-day player hours, The Rust Server is in the top 71% overall.
What's the player count on The Rust Server?
The Rust Server last showed life 9 days 4 hours ago; it is offline now.
Join the server
How do you connect to The Rust Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 43.226.128.236:17280. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. You can find its website at https://minekuai.com.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.