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The Rust Experiment
Online 173.170.243.109:28015 checked 5m ago
- Last week
- No. 5,788
- Peak
- No. 4,031
- Days on chart
- 40
Rank
- 24 Sep7,616
- 1 Oct12,558
- 8 Oct7,912
- 15 Oct4,056
- 22 Oct5,788
- now5,363
Top 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
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.
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 UTC27d 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
- 1 Rusty Moose |EU Mondays| 249/ 250
- 2 Rustoria.co - EU East Long 187/ 225
- 3 Rusty Moose |EU Main| 20/ 250
- 4 Rustoria.co - EU Main 21/ 250
- 5 Rustafied.com - EU Friday 25/ 100
- 6 Rustoria.co - EU East Medium 87/ 200
Quick answers
Wipe days
What should you expect on The Rust Experiment when wipe day comes?
2 players is the average busiest figure across its recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 26 hours in.
When does The Rust Experiment wipe?
No rhythm can be read yet from the wipes on record for The Rust Experiment. The monthly force wipe comes next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and every Rust server wipes with it. It has been on this world for 27 days 6 hours.
Tag guide
Where does The Rust Experiment appear in Rust Server Rank lists and filters?
These Rust Server Rank lists feature The Rust Experiment: Rust community servers, charted. 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.
What do The Rust Experiment's tags tell you?
The game's server browser picks up the tags The Rust Experiment publishes, which are: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It holds 50 players; ts8 (Group limit): The default cap applies: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, run the same version: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer: RakNet; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set. You'll also find the current player count, the queue and when the world was made in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Map and rules
Which map is in play on The Rust Experiment?
The Rust Experiment runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 609568408, generated by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.
What settings and rules does The Rust Experiment have in place?
You will not find a gather rate in The Rust Experiment's name. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game, built on gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. Community is where you will find it in the server browser; it is a community server. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Server details
What Rust version is The Rust Experiment on?
On Windows, The Rust Experiment runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles that update.
How reliable is The Rust Experiment, and is it online now?
Right now The Rust Experiment is up and taking players. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time across the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours. It came to Rust Server Rank on 13 September 2026 for the first time.
Is The Rust Experiment smooth to play on?
The last 48 hours gave an average of 30 server fps, with a floor of 30. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 66,336 entities. Memory use reached 1,991 MB at its peak. Players call it lag: fps falling and entities piling up.
In which location is The Rust Experiment hosted?
There is no region published for The Rust Experiment. Rust Server Rank does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 173.170.243.109:28015 is its address.
Numbers
How many players does The Rust Experiment usually have?
The live picture at The Rust Experiment: 0 players, 50 slots. Averaging 0 players over the last week, it hit a high of 2. At 19:00 UTC it saw its busiest spell of the last 48 hours, averaging 1 players.
What position does The Rust Experiment hold among Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, The Rust Experiment has clocked the player hours that put it at #5,475, inside the top 25% of all ranked servers.
How to join
How do you get into The Rust Experiment?
Press F1 in Rust to bring up the console, then enter client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust also works: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.