The Rust Experiment
Online 173.170.243.109:28015 checked 13m ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe 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.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe day
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Experiment?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 2 players. 26 hours into the latest wipe, player numbers topped out.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Experiment?
Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of The Rust Experiment's wipes are on record. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world in play now was made 27 days 3 hours ago.
Population
How busy is The Rust Experiment?
The current population of The Rust Experiment is 0, against 50 slots. The average across the last seven days is 0 players; the peak reached 2. Its busiest point in the last 48 hours was 19:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
How does The Rust Experiment rank against other Rust servers?
Ranked #5,481 on seven-day player hours, The Rust Experiment is in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
Settings and rules
Which map does The Rust Experiment run?
The Rust Experiment runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 609568408, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Experiment?
No gather rate appears in the name The Rust Experiment. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Rust Experiment run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the build The Rust Experiment runs, on Windows. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is The Rust Experiment online, and how reliable is it?
Online now: The Rust Experiment. Its reported uptime dates the last restart to about 9 hours ago. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. The first record of it on Rust Heatmap is 13 September 2026.
Where is The Rust Experiment located?
A region is not published for The Rust Experiment. What Rust Heatmap shows is where a server says it is. Where the machine stands is not looked up. 173.170.243.109:28015 is its address.
Does The Rust Experiment run smoothly?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 30; it never dropped below 30. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 66,336 entities. At its peak it held 1,991 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Rust Experiment?
The Rust Heatmap lists that The Rust Experiment fits are: Best Rust community servers. Filtering the list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more brings it up.
What do the server tags on The Rust Experiment mean?
These are the tags The Rust Experiment publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank. Players now, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags as well and appear at the top of this page.
Connect
How do I join The Rust Experiment?
To join by console, open it with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015. Or press Launch Rust on this page, which connects you through Steam.