Rust Player Count
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Online81.16.176.157:7135checked 7m ago

ME21

Players now 0/ 40 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,892 top 72%
Last wipe 35d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – no wipe seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

025507510020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 72% 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
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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 wipes
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 398 on average 466/ 550
Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 339 on average 402/ 475
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 331 on average 286/ 275
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 320 on average 313/ 450
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 297 on average 48/ 250
Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 271 on average 351/ 450

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

What are the server rules for ME21?

The name of ME21 does not state a gather rate. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What is the map on ME21?

ME21 runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 2147483647, generated by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

Tags and filters

Where can ME21 be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include ME21: Best Rust PvE servers. 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 is the meaning of the tags on ME21?

These are the tags ME21 publishes for the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp40 (Max players): Capacity: 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.

Player count

How many players does ME21 have?

Right now, 0 players are on ME21, which has 40 slots. For the past week, the average number of players was 0.

How does ME21 compare in server rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, ME21 ranks #15,892 and is in the top 72% of all ranked servers.

Server details

What is the online status and reliability of ME21?

Right now, ME21 is up. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 15 days 23 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 13 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on ME21?

Linux hosts ME21, which runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What region does ME21 serve?

A region is not published by ME21. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 81.16.176.157:7135.

How well does ME21 perform?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 73 server fps, with a low of 33. Up to 117,353 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 7,373 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe information

What wipe pattern does ME21 follow?

Too few wipes are recorded for ME21 to reveal its pattern. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next monthly force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server. The present world dates from 35 days 3 hours ago.

How to join

How can I connect to ME21?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 81.16.176.157:7135. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp40
Max players Capacity: 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs165217
Build The game build is 165217.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.