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
43.227.71.245:20016
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 389 places on last week. Top 71% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 43.227.71.245:20016
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 24 Sep 2026, 15:08 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 24 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. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, 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, created by the game.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on The Rust Server?
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): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633: match it or you cannot join; cs165217 (Build): Running build 165217; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does The Rust Server appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for The Rust Server: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server details
What's the physical location of The Rust Server?
No region comes from The Rust Server. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 43.227.71.245:20016.
How often is The Rust Server online?
Offline now, The Rust Server was last seen 13 days 6 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 0%, 0 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 24 September 2026.
Which Rust build does The Rust Server have?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux: that is The Rust Server. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
When does The Rust Server wipe?
The record holds too few of The Rust Server's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. Its world is 13 days 17 hours old.
Player counts
What's The Rust Server's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put The Rust Server at #16,173, in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Is The Rust Server busy?
Down right now: The Rust Server, last spotted 13 days 6 hours back.
How to join
How do you connect to The Rust Server?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 43.227.71.245:20016. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.