Rusty Playground
Online 104.51.60.243:28998 checked 11m ago
Vital stats
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
Top 40% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 16:13 UTC26d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Playground?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rusty Playground: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Rusty Playground mean?
For the server browser, Rusty Playground lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp1 (Max players): It has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Rusty Playground rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #8,862 puts Rusty Playground in the top 40% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Rusty Playground right now?
Rusty Playground is holding 0 players, with 1 slots in total. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players. Look at 01:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.
Server details
Is Rusty Playground online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Rusty Playground is online. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Where is Rusty Playground located?
There is no region from Rusty Playground. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 104.51.60.243:28998.
Which Rust version is Rusty Playground on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rusty Playground runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
The wipe schedule
What happens on Rusty Playground 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 Rusty Playground?
Rusty Playground wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days 23 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Rules and settings
Which map does Rusty Playground run?
Rusty Playground uses a procedural map, which the game generates.
What are the rules and settings on Rusty Playground?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rusty Playground. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are running on it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Join up
How do I join Rusty Playground?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 104.51.60.243:28998. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.