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

Camera-shy: no banner published Rust Server Onlineright now +3since yesterday
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Rust Server

Online 160.236.23.24:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 3/ 50 slots 6% full +3against this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 4
Rank#3,053top 14%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe16d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608008:0017:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

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 12 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
12k4k6k8k12 Oct15 Oct18 Oct22 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 14% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Server?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rust Server: 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?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; 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): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #3,053 puts Rust Server in the top 14% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

The current tally at Rust Server: 3 players across 50 slots. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 16:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.

About the server

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Rust Server is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 45 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 159, a 95% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 12 October 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 58, and it never went below 51. The world carried as many as 49,063 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,026 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Rust Server located?

There is no region from Rust Server. 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 160.236.23.24:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record of Rust Server's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 16 days 4 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 1234 is what Rust Server runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

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, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 160.236.23.24:28015 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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
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 The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$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.