ion
Online 51.38.155.240:22562 checked 9m ago
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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 55% 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.
- wipe-day peak
- 2players, last three wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 35 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2 OCT 2026Fri 2 Oct, 05:24 UTC28d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Settings and map
What settings and rules does ion run?
The name of ion does not state a gather rate. 8 players per group is the default limit. Filed under survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins are run on it. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned off.
Which map is in use on ion?
Size 4,050, seed 176909869: the game generates the procedural map on ion. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags
Where does ion appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is ion: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. Filed under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What is meant by the tags on ion?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: ion gives gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp67 (Max players): 67 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, as in the standard game; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this under Modded. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
What should you expect on ion when wipe day comes?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. The latest wipe peaked 35 hours in.
How often is ion wiped, and on what schedule?
ion's rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of its wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it. Its present world dates from 28 days 1 hours.
Player counts
What position does ion hold among Rust servers?
On player hours over seven days, ion takes #12,296, within the top 55% of ranked servers.
How many players are on ion at the moment?
ion is currently showing 0 players on 67 slots. Averaged across seven days: 0 players, peaking at 1.
Operator and status
What version does ion use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on ion. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is ion, and is it online now?
The server is live at this moment: ion. About 29 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
How well does ion perform?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 122, with a low of 98. The entity count reached 97,311, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use reached as much as 4,195 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
Where in the world is ion hosted?
No region is published by ion. Rust Server Index takes the server's word for its location and does not look up the machine's position. Connection details: 51.38.155.240:22562.
Connecting
What is the way onto ion?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 51.38.155.240:22562 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp67,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp67
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.