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
86.174.90.248:28016
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 446 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 86.174.90.248:28016
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 01:18 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 25 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 A Rust Server use?
There is no gather rate in the name of A 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. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on A Rust Server?
A Rust Server uses a procedural map of 3,000 that the game generates with seed 31833. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
How should you read the tags on A Rust Server?
The game's server browser reads the tags A Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp40 (Max players): 40 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does A Rust Server appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find A Rust Server: 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 week.
Server info
What's the location of A Rust Server?
From A 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 86.174.90.248:28016.
How often is A Rust Server online?
Offline now, A Rust Server was last seen 5 days 7 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 30% uptime, with 51 hours up out of 168. The first record Boongarust has is 25 September 2026.
Which Rust build does A Rust Server have?
On Linux, A Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at A Rust Server?
0 players was the average peak on recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
When does A Rust Server wipe?
With so few of A Rust Server's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are on was made 6 days 9 hours.
Population
Where does A Rust Server sit in the rankings?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, A Rust Server is #16,557 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on A Rust Server?
A Rust Server last showed life 5 days 7 hours ago; it is offline now. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
How to join
What's the process to join A Rust Server?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 86.174.90.248:28016. 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.