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
5.18.255.158:28015
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 650 places on last week. Top 60% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 5.18.255.158:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 500
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 29 Sep 2026, 20:42 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 settings does ALFA use?
The name of ALFA does not include a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on ALFA?
The map on ALFA is procedural, created by the game.
Tags
How should you read the tags on ALFA?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp500 (Max players): Slot count: 500; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166440 (Build): Game build is 166440; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record are the tags ALFA puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
What Boongarust lists feature ALFA?
The Boongarust lists that take ALFA are: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
What's the physical location of ALFA?
No region is published by ALFA. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 5.18.255.158:28015.
How reliable is ALFA?
Offline now, ALFA was last seen 7 days 4 hours ago. 2 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 1% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 29 September 2026.
What Rust version is ALFA using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166440 on Windows: that is ALFA. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
ALFA wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of ALFA's wipes to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 8 days 9 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
Where does ALFA sit in the rankings?
In the top 60% of all ranked servers, ALFA is #14,330 on player hours over the last seven days.
What's the player count on ALFA?
Offline. ALFA was last seen 7 days 4 hours ago. The average over the last seven days was 1 players, with a peak of 1.
How to join
What's the process to join ALFA?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 5.18.255.158:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166440,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.