The Rust Experiment
173.170.243.109:28015 checked 9m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 18% 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.
- wipe-day peak
- 2 players, last three wipes
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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 00:49 UTC 12d 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
Quick answers
Player Numbers
What is the rank of The Rust Experiment?
Over the last seven days, The Rust Experiment ranks #4,028 in player hours, which is in the top 18% of ranked servers.
What is the player count on The Rust Experiment?
The current player count for The Rust Experiment is 0, out of 50 slots. The seven-day average player count stands at 1, and the highest point was 3. Over the last 48 hours, the peak hour was 09:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.
Server Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on The Rust Experiment?
For The Rust Experiment, the game's server browser reads the following tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp50 (Max players): Slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default is 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: join only if your game matches this version; cs167781 (Build): Build 167781; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $r? (Region code): Region code not set. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and the time its world was made, all from the tags.
Where does The Rust Experiment appear in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters?
These BestRustServers.xyz lists include The Rust Experiment: Rust community servers, ranked. These filters on the server list display it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server Details
What Rust version is The Rust Experiment on?
The combination is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows for The Rust Experiment. Joining requires the same protocol; Steam updates your game for you.
How smooth is the performance on The Rust Experiment?
For the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 30, never dropping below 28. It held up to 65,340 entities: everything from buildings to deployables in the world. At its highest, memory usage was 2,084 MB. What players experience as lag is low fps combined with a rising entity count.
The Rust Experiment uptime and reliability: what are they?
At the moment, The Rust Experiment is up. The uptime it reports shows a restart roughly 3 minutes ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. The first time BestRustServers.xyz saw it was on 13 September 2026.
Where can The Rust Experiment be found?
No region is published by The Rust Experiment. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. 173.170.243.109:28015 is its address.
Settings & Map
What is the map on The Rust Experiment?
On The Rust Experiment, the map is procedural, size 3,500 with seed 609568408, generated by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
What rules and configuration does The Rust Experiment have?
A gather rate is not given in the name The Rust Experiment. No group limit is stated; the game's default of 8 players applies. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Raids and PvP are on. It is a community server, found under Community. The server has VAC on.
Wipe Cycle
When does The Rust Experiment wipe?
The record holds too few wipes for The Rust Experiment to show a rhythm. The monthly force wipe applies to every Rust server, and the next is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The current world has been running since 12 days 17 hours.
On The Rust Experiment, what occurs on wipe day?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 2 players. 26 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
How to Join
What is the process to join The Rust Experiment?
Enter client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust), or use Launch Rust on this page to open Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp50- Max players Slot count is 50.
ts8- Group limit The game default is 8 per team.
v2634- Protocol Protocol 2634: join only if your game matches this version.
cs167781- Build Build 167781.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$r?- Region code Region code not 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.