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

Camera-shy: no banner published Rust Server Onlineright now
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Rust Server

Online 108.76.98.217:28015 checked 15m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 20 slots 5% full −1−50%against this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#4,884top 22%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe25d agono schedule published
Next wipe8d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5221:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 22% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 28 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 23:36 UTC FW25d ago 1 – 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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rust Server: Community servers, by the numbers. 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 do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Rust Server: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp20 (Max players): It has 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #4,884, in the top 22% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

1 players are on Rust Server at the moment, out of 20 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

About the server

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 5 days ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 109, with 65 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 121,785: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,595 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

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 108.76.98.217:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

On Windows, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 28 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Rust Server, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 25 days 20 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 12345, the map on Rust Server is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is off.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 108.76.98.217:28015 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 mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp20
Max players It has 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.