Live 79,533 players 11,830 servers online 259 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

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 118.27.230.120:28015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ ? slots steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#5,013top 23%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5215:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608015:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

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 1 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
12k4k6k8k1 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 23% 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 7d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

14
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 4hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 14, 21 hours in, with 4 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:57 UTC FW27d ago 14+4 queue – 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.

Lists and 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): Survival, standard Rust style; mp0 (Max players): It has 0 slots; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Rust Server at #5,013, within the top 23% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

The count at Rust Server right now: 1 players. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 0 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 13:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Server facts

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust Server is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 23 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 1 October 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 57, with 51 as the lowest. At its peak it held 51,045 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 2,355 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

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 118.27.230.120:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. 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?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 14 players. With 4 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 21 hours after the wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Wipes on Rust Server come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 27 days 19 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1234, the map on Rust Server is procedural and 3,000 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?

The name of Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 118.27.230.120:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp0,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp0
Max players It has 0 slots.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

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.