Rust HeatmapInfrared · players
IR live Players51,358 Servers11,704 Warm3,284 Fresh wipes · 3h143 Frameevery 5 min
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REC Thermal scan · 48 h Sp1 1° now Linear · 0–500° · slots

ALFA

Offline 5.18.253.158:28015 checked 11d ago

Sp1 · players now 1/ 500
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
No hourly readings in the last 48 hours
0
7-day average
peak –
#13,766
rank
top 64%
13d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
too few wipes seen yet
UTC checked 11d ago

Li2Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k25 Sep29 Sep2 Oct16 Oct19 Oct23 Oct

Top 64% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 14 Oct, 15:33 UTC13d ago 1 – running 1

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 wipes
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EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 520 on average
389 / 425
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EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 336 on average
22 / 250
Rusty Moose |EU Main|
EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 333 on average
45 / 250
Rustoria.co - EU East Long
EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 317 on average
180 / 200
Rustoria.co - EU East Medium
EU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 279 on average
69 / 200
Rustafied.com - EU Friday
EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 263 on average
77 / 100

LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on ALFA?

At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on ALFA?

Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of ALFA'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 it runs now dates from 13 days 9 hours ago.

Population

How busy is ALFA?

ALFA went quiet 11 days 11 hours ago and is offline right now.

How does ALFA rank against other Rust servers?

Ranked #13,766 on seven-day player hours, ALFA is in the top 64% of all ranked servers.

Map and rules

What are the rules and settings on ALFA?

A gather rate is not given in the name ALFA. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. survival is the game mode, standard play: gathering, building and raiding. You can fight other players and raid their bases. In the server browser it appears under Community, as a community server. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

Which version of Rust does ALFA run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the build ALFA runs, on Windows. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.

Is ALFA online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment: ALFA was last seen 11 days 11 hours ago. 0 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 0%. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 25 September 2026.

Where is ALFA located?

Nothing about a region comes from ALFA. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. You can reach it at 5.18.253.158:28015.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include ALFA?

These Rust Heatmap lists include ALFA: Best Rust community servers. You will find it 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.

What do the server tags on ALFA mean?

These are the tags ALFA publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp500 (Max players): The slot count is 500; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2634, so your game has to match it; cs167781 (Build): This build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.

Connect

How do I join ALFA?

Enter client.connect 5.18.253.158:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Rust survival, standard rules.
mp500
Max players The slot count is 500.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol The server runs game protocol 2634, so your game has to match it.
cs167781
Build This build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking Standard game networking here, which is RakNet.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

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.