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Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published A Rust Server Onlineright now
Celebrity profile

A Rust Server

Online 104.143.2.12:28015 checked 6m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,383top 70%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe22d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

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

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe 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.

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 10:29 UTC22d ago 0 – 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include A Rust Server?

You'll find A Rust Server on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

These are the tags A Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place A Rust Server at #15,383, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

The current tally at A Rust Server: 0 players across 40 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server facts

Is A Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

A Rust Server is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 9 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 23. Entities reached a maximum of 5,449: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 1,761 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is A Rust Server located?

No region is published by A Rust Server. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 104.143.2.12:28015.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version A Rust Server runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on A Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

A Rust Server's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 22 days 8 hours.

The rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The procedural map on A Rust Server measures 1,024 and comes from the game with seed 21569. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

The name of A Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join A Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 104.143.2.12:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left 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.