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
81.16.176.157:7135
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 79 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 81.16.176.157:7135
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 9 Sep 2026, 15:38 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 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 ME21's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of ME21. It uses the default group size of 8 players. 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 ME21?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 2147483647 is in use on ME21, made by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
What do ME21's tags signify?
The game's server browser reads the tags ME21 publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; 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): Build 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $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.
Which Boongarust filters show ME21?
On these Boongarust lists you will find ME21: 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.
Server details
Is ME21 laggy?
The 48-hour average was 84 server fps; the floor was 67. At its peak, it held 117,455 entities, including buildings and deployables. At its highest, memory consumption was 6,243 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find ME21?
No region comes from ME21. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 81.16.176.157:7135.
How often is ME21 online?
Right now ME21 is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 9 days 22 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does ME21 have?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux: that is ME21. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
ME21 wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of ME21's wipes to tell its rhythm. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 29 days 3 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
Where does ME21 sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put ME21 at #16,032, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on ME21?
ME21 is showing 0 players on 40 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
Join the server
How do you connect to ME21?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 81.16.176.157:7135. 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.