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

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Rust Server

Online 104.143.3.223:28039 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,348top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246822:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

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 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% 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
Wed 30 Sep, 00:35 UTC28d 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 Rust Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2633 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2633, so your client has to match it to join; cs165217 (Build): It's on game build 165217; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,348 puts Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

Rust Server is holding 0 players, with 100 slots in total. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server facts

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Rust Server is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 28 days 19 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 5, with 5 as the lowest. At its peak it held 30,384 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 3,031 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 104.143.3.223:28039.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record of Rust Server's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 28 days 21 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

The procedural map on Rust Server measures 2,500 and comes from the game with seed 345345. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

The name of Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 104.143.3.223:28039. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs165217,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2633
Protocol The game protocol is 2633, so your client has to match it to join.
cs165217
Build It's on game build 165217.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.