Online173.170.243.109:28015checked 6m ago
The Rust Experiment
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 19% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 26 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 00:49 UTC12d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
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
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageRules and settings
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Experiment?
A gather rate is not given in the name of The Rust Experiment. Groups can reach 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, the normal game, with gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC from Valve is active as anti-cheat.
Which map is running on The Rust Experiment?
A procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 609568408 runs on The Rust Experiment, generated by the game. From this page, RustMaps can display it: the same size and seed give the same map.
Population
How many players are on The Rust Experiment?
On The Rust Experiment, 2 of 50 slots are filled right now. Averaging 1 players over seven days, it peaked at 3. The highest average over the last 48 hours occurred at 09:00 UTC, with 3 players.
What position does The Rust Experiment hold in the Rust server rankings?
Over the last seven days, The Rust Experiment ranks #4,147 for player hours, placing it in the top 19% of all ranked servers.
Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on The Rust Experiment?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The Rust Experiment: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp50 (Max players): 50 player slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is the default for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol version, 2634; cs167781 (Build): It runs on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. Also in the tags, and shown at the top of this page: its players now, its queue, and when its world was made.
Where does The Rust Experiment appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
On When Is Rust Force Wipe, The Rust Experiment is placed in these lists: Best Rust community servers. These filters show it 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 2 weeks.
Server info
What is the location of The Rust Experiment?
Region: not published by The Rust Experiment. When Is Rust Force Wipe displays the location a server reports, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 173.170.243.109:28015.
Is the performance on The Rust Experiment good?
Over the last 48 hours the average was 30 server fps, and the lowest was 28. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to a peak of 65,340 entities. At its peak it used 2,084 MB of memory. When fps is low and entities climb, players feel it as lag.
How reliable is The Rust Experiment, and is it currently online?
The Rust Experiment is currently up. About 16 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its reported uptime. It was up for 168 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours, 100% of the time. It was first seen by When Is Rust Force Wipe on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust version is used on The Rust Experiment?
On Windows, The Rust Experiment runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game, but you need the same protocol to join.
Wipe info
On what schedule does The Rust Experiment wipe?
Too few wipes of The Rust Experiment are recorded for its rhythm to be known. The monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, wipes every Rust server. The world in play now was built 12 days 9 hours ago.
What happens on wipe day for The Rust Experiment?
Its recent wipes averaged 2 players at peak. 26 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
Join info
What steps are needed to join The Rust Experiment?
Use the console: press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015. Another option is Launch Rust on this page, which launches Rust via Steam and connects you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
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.