The Rust Server
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 69%.
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
43.226.58.236:17280
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
Up 27 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 43.226.58.236:17280
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 22:08 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 29 Sep 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 The Rust Server's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of The Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on The Rust Server?
The map on The Rust Server is procedural, size 4,250, generated with seed 1112022 by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
What do The Rust Server's tags signify?
These tags come from The Rust Server and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp40 (Max players): Room for 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. 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.
What Boongarust lists feature The Rust Server?
On these Boongarust lists you will find 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 week.
Server info
Where can you find 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 43.226.58.236:17280.
How reliable is The Rust Server?
Last seen 3 days 20 hours ago, The Rust Server is offline at the moment. Last 7 full days: 56% uptime, with 94 hours up out of 168. The first record Boongarust has is 29 September 2026.
Which Rust build does The Rust Server have?
On Linux, The Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
Wipe day at The Rust Server: what's it like?
Recent wipes peaked at 0 players on average. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does The Rust Server wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for The Rust Server, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are on was made 6 days 19 hours.
Player counts
Where does The Rust Server sit in the rankings?
Ranked #16,084 on seven-day player hours, The Rust Server is in the top 69% overall.
How many players are on The Rust Server?
Down right now: The Rust Server, last spotted 3 days 20 hours back. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
Join the server
How can you get into The Rust Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 43.226.58.236:17280. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. Find it at https://minekuai.com.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.