Players
253
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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% 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.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
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Quick answers
About the server
Is 253 online, and how reliable is it?
Right now 253 is running. About 17 hours ago is when it last restarted, to go by the uptime it reports. 144 of 168 hours is what it managed over the past 7 full days, 86% of the time. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 3 October 2026.
Where is 253 located?
No region is published by 253. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 85.190.161.104:11200.
Which version of Rust does 253 run?
The build behind 253 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, hosted on Windows. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does 253 run smoothly?
It averaged 10 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 10. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 66,317 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,104 MB. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Who is on
How busy is 253?
253 has 0 of its 50 slots filled right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players.
How does 253 rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the past week put 253 at #15,349, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on 253?
Too few wipes on record for 253 to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and it covers every Rust server. 25 days 14 hours is how long ago its current world was made.
Settings and map
What are the rules and settings on 253?
You will not find a gather rate in the name 253. 8 players is the group limit, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Community is where it appears in the server browser; it is a community server. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does 253 run?
The map on 253 is procedural, size 3,500, seed 6738, made by the game. Since the same size and seed give the same map, this page links to it on RustMaps.
Tag guide
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include 253?
These Rust Charts lists include 253: Rust community servers, unmodded. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on 253 mean?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Vanilla survival is the mode; mp50 (Max players): The server holds 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, as the game ships it; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what runs here; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset — that's the set of tags 253 publishes for the server browser. At the top of this page you'll see the tags' extra details: players now, the queue, and the age of the world.
How to join
How do I join 253?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 85.190.161.104:11200. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
