RS-4183Community server
The Rust Experiment
Online 173.170.243.109:28015 checked 7m 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 19% 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.
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 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 wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Player activity
How populated is The Rust Experiment?
The Rust Experiment is showing 1 players on 50 slots right now. Its seven-day average is 1 players, with a peak of 3. At 09:00 UTC it was busiest in the last 48 hours, averaging 3 players.
What is the ranking of The Rust Experiment?
Ranked #4,183 on seven-day player hours, The Rust Experiment is in the top 19% of all ranked servers.
Server tags and lists
On Top Rust Servers, which lists and filters carry The Rust Experiment?
These Top Rust Servers lists count The Rust Experiment among their servers: Best Rust community servers. 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 2 weeks.
How should you read the tags on The Rust Experiment?
Published by The Rust Experiment for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival follows the standard Rust ruleset; mp50 (Max players): Player slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, as standard in the game; v2634 (Protocol): This server runs protocol 2634; match it to connect; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is assigned. The top of this page also shows the time its world was made, its queue, and its players now, all from the tags.
Rules, settings, and map
What map is used on The Rust Experiment?
A procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 609568408, created by the game, is in use on The Rust Experiment. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, as identical size and seed yield the same map.
What does The Rust Experiment run for rules and settings?
No gather rate is given in the name The Rust Experiment. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. You play survival, the normal mode where you gather, build and raid. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser and is a community server. VAC anti-cheat is active.
Server details
What version is The Rust Experiment running?
On Windows, The Rust Experiment operates Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Your game needs the same protocol to connect; Steam takes care of updating it.
How well does The Rust Experiment perform?
The last 48 hours saw it average 30 server fps, never going under 28. Its entity count reached 65,340, including buildings, deployables and all other objects. Its memory use reached 2,084 MB at most. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities increase.
What is the location of The Rust Experiment?
No region is published by The Rust Experiment. What Top Rust Servers shows is where a server says it is, not where the machine stands, which it does not look up. It answers at 173.170.243.109:28015.
How reliable is The Rust Experiment?
Right now, The Rust Experiment is up and running. Going by its reported uptime, it restarted about 14 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, or 100%. Its first appearance in Top Rust Servers was on 13 September 2026.
Wipe details
What can you expect on wipe day on The Rust Experiment?
Across recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 2 players. The latest wipe saw its highest player count 26 hours in.
When does The Rust Experiment wipe?
The record holds too few wipes to determine The Rust Experiment's pattern. A force wipe happens monthly across all Rust servers; the next is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The present world has been live since 12 days 7 hours ago.
How to join
What are the steps to join The Rust Experiment?
To connect, start Rust, hit F1, and enter client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015. You can also join by clicking Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and links you in.