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

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Rust Server

Online 118.27.229.195:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#6,829top 31%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe14d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75112:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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 3 Oct. 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
12.5k5k7.5k10k3 Oct8 Oct13 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 Oct

Top 31% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

5.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctWed 14 OctSat 3 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 06:06 UTC14d ago 1 – running 0
Wed 14 Oct, 15:56 UTC14d ago 1 – 0.6 days 0
Sat 3 Oct, 10:18 UTC26d ago 1 held half 11.2 days 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?

You'll find Rust Server on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 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?

For the server browser, Rust Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 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?

Player hours over the last week rank Rust Server at #6,829, within the top 31% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

0 players are on Rust Server at the moment, out of 50 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players. Look at 02:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.

Server facts

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust Server is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 19 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 3 October 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 60, with 59 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 69,931: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,227 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 118.27.229.195:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

No next wipe can be predicted for Rust Server: its wipes happen at irregular times. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 14 days 2 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1156067853, the map on Rust Server is procedural and 3,500 in size. 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 Rust Server?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rust Server. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 118.27.229.195:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 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.