The Rust Server
202.189.16.201:40265 checked 1d ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 72% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
Similar servers
Quick answers
Population
How busy is The Rust Server?
Right now The Rust Server is offline; the last sighting was 41 hours ago. Looking at the last seven days, the average player count was 0.
How does The Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, The Rust Server ranks #15,915 worldwide and sits in the top 72% of all ranked servers.
Wipe times
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Server?
The rhythm of The Rust Server cannot yet be told: too few of its wipes are on record. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when all Rust servers wipe. 2 days 6 hours ago the current world was made.
Server details
Is The Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?
The server The Rust Server is offline as of the latest check; last seen 41 hours ago. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at about 12 hours ago. 0 of 24 hours were online in the last 1 full day, 0% uptime. When Is Wipe has tracked it since 12 October 2026.
Performance of The Rust Server: does it run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, average server fps was 232, and it never dropped below 218. At its peak it held 45,725 entities, which covers buildings, deployables and all other objects in the world. Memory use reached 1,650 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Which version of Rust does The Rust Server run?
On The Rust Server, the Rust version is network protocol 2634 and build 167398 and the OS is Linux. Steam updates your game, so the protocol matches when you join.
Where is The Rust Server located?
For The Rust Server, no region is published. What When Is Wipe shows is where a server says it is, not where the machine stands, which it does not look up. 202.189.16.201:40265 is its address.
Tags, lists
Which When Is Wipe lists include The Rust Server? And filters?
Community Rust servers are the When Is Wipe lists that The Rust Server fits. It appears under these filters 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 3 days.
What do the server tags on The Rust Server mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival is the game mode; mp40 (Max players): The server holds 40 players; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's default; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set are the tags The Rust Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page you can see its current players, queue and world creation time, which are in the tags too.
Map and rules
What rules does The Rust Server enforce? And settings?
The Rust Server's name makes no mention of a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the default. The game mode for this server is survival, standard survival: gathering, building, raiding. You can fight and raid other players. A community server, it appears in the Community section. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does The Rust Server run?
A procedural map, size 3,000 with seed 1175069549, is used by The Rust Server; the game generates it. The map is fixed by size and seed; view it on RustMaps from this page.
Join
How do I join The Rust Server?
Open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 202.189.16.201:40265 in the console. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to open the game via Steam and connect. The address for its site is https://minekuai.com.
Server tags
Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival is the game mode.
mp40- Max players The server holds 40 players.
ts8- Group limit Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default.
v2634- Protocol Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167398- Build The game build is 167398.
ptrak- Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's default.
$r?- Region code No region code has been set.
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.