Online15.218.79.168:28015checked 9m ago
Ares
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 58% 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
newest first| 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageSettings and map
Which rules govern Ares?
A gather rate is absent from the name of Ares. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. Its own label is vanilla: the standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map is running on Ares?
A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on Ares.
Server tags
Where can Ares be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that Ares fits are: Best Rust PvE servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
What is the meaning of the tags on Ares?
These are the tags Ares publishes for the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in its vanilla form; mp10 (Max players): 10 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^v (Vanilla): The standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.
Player numbers
How full is Ares?
0 of 10 slots are filled on Ares right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
Where does Ares sit in the rankings?
Ares is in the top 58% of all ranked servers with a rank of #12,514 for player hours over the past seven days.
Server details
What is the online status and reliability of Ares?
You can find Ares online at the moment. For the last 1 full day, it was online for 24 of 24 hours, a 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 20 October 2026.
What Rust version is used on Ares?
On Linux, Ares runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What is the location of Ares?
A region is not published by Ares. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 15.218.79.168:28015.
Wipe schedule
When does Ares wipe?
The rhythm of wipes on Ares cannot be told yet, since too few are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next monthly force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server. It has been running its current world for 2 days 6 hours.
How to join
What steps are needed to join Ares?
Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 15.218.79.168:28015. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^v,gmvanilla,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp10
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
Difficulty
^v
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.