Cheese
Online 157.85.89.204:24358 checked 12m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC16d ago | 3+1 queue | – | running | 2 |
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Cheese?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include Cheese: Community servers, by the numbers. It appears under these filters 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 Cheese mean?
These are the tags Cheese publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp3 (Max players): There are 3 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; 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): Region code left blank. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Cheese rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last week rank Cheese at #15,339, within the top 69% of ranked servers.
How many players are on Cheese right now?
0 players are on Cheese at the moment, out of 3 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
Server facts
Is Cheese online, and how reliable is it?
Cheese is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 4 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 12 October 2026.
Does Cheese run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 235, with 190 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 30,232 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,963 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is Cheese located?
There is no region from Cheese. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 157.85.89.204:24358.
Which Rust version is Cheese on?
On Linux, Cheese runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe days
What happens on Cheese when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 3 players at their busiest. With 1 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 0 hours after the wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on Cheese?
Cheese's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. 16 days 18 hours is when the present world was made.
Map and rules
Which map does Cheese run?
The procedural map on Cheese measures 2,500 and comes from the game with seed 50000. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on Cheese?
No gather rate appears in the name of Cheese. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join Cheese?
Enter client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.