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
85.190.161.104:11200
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
Top 49% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 85.190.161.104:11200
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 10:46 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 3 Oct 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 settings does 253 use?
The name of 253 does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. 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 253?
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 6738 is in use on 253, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
What are the tags on 253 for?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs167231 (Build): Game build is 167231; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing are the tags 253 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 253?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for 253: 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
Performance of 253: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 10, with a low of 8. The entity count reached 65,629: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 2,070 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
Where can you find 253?
From 253, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 85.190.161.104:11200.
What's the uptime like on 253?
Right now 253 is live. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 11 hours ago. Last 4 full days: 100% uptime, with 96 hours up out of 96. The first record Boongarust has is 3 October 2026.
Which Rust build does 253 have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Windows: that is 253. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
253 wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of 253'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. Its world is 5 days 11 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does 253 place?
In the top 49% of all ranked servers, 253 is #11,297 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is 253 busy?
253 is showing 0 players on 50 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1.
Join the server
How can you get into 253?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 85.190.161.104:11200. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167231,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.