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

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A Rust Server

Online 15.204.112.136:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,412top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe5d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0002:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020008:0017:0002:0012:0021:0006:00

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 22 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
15k10k15k20k21 Oct22 Oct24 Oct25 Oct27 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
Thu 22 Oct, 14:48 UTC5d 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 same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include A Rust Server?

You'll find A Rust Server on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

These are the tags A Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,412 puts A Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

0 players are on A Rust Server at the moment, out of 40 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server details

Is A Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, A Rust Server is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 hours ago. Out of 144 hours in the last 6 full days, it was online for 130, a 90% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 21 October 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 90 server fps, with a low of 49. At its peak it held 44,255 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 1,961 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is A Rust Server located?

There is no region from A 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 15.204.112.136:28015.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

On Linux, A 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 A Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for A Rust Server to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 5 days 16 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The procedural map on A Rust Server measures 3,000 and comes from the game with seed 1234. 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 A Rust Server?

The name of A Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins power it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 15.204.112.136:28015 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^v,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs.

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.