Live 96,345 players 11,873 servers online 382 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

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

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Rust Server

Online 157.120.220.179:28015 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,341top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe25d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123417:0002:0011:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608017:0002:0011:0020:0005:0014:00

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 4 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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 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.

3
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 3, 34 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 02:27 UTC25d ago 3 – 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Server?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes for the browser: 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; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs166652 (Build): Game build: 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown 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 #15,341, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

Rust Server is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

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 11 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 4 October 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 60, and it never went below 44. At its peak it held 29,713 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 1,473 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rust Server located?

There is no region from 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 157.120.220.179:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 34 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to reveal its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. Its current world has been live for 25 days 13 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

The procedural map on Rust Server measures 2,500 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 Rust Server?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rust Server. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 157.120.220.179:28015 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z

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.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs166652
Build Game build: 166652.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.