Rust Server
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 70%.
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
98.96.163.210:28015
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 473 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 98.96.163.210:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 10
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 11 Feb 2026, 11:49 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.
Map and rules
What are Rust Server's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of Rust Server. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Rust Server?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1337 is in use on Rust Server, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
What do Rust Server's tags signify?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp10 (Max players): 10 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2621 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2621 to get in; cs142930 (Build): Running build 142930; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record are the tags Rust Server puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature Rust Server?
On these Boongarust lists you will find 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.
Server info
How smooth is Rust Server?
The 48-hour average was 90 server fps; the floor was 64. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 148,932 entities. At its highest, memory consumption was 4,906 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Rust Server?
No region is published by Rust Server. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 98.96.163.210:28015.
How often is Rust Server online?
Online: Rust Server, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 12 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 99%, 166 hours from 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does Rust Server have?
On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2621 and build 142930. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
When does Rust Server wipe?
With so few of 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. Its world is 238 days 22 hours old.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Rust Server place?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, Rust Server is #16,584 on player hours over the last seven days.
What's the player count on Rust Server?
0 players are on Rust Server at the moment, out of 10 slots. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
How to join
What's the process to join Rust Server?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 98.96.163.210:28015. 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2621,gmrust,cs142930,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.