Live 91,106 players 11,828 servers online 433 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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SOCKS

Online 162.19.159.125:27201 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,268top 68%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe8d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0001:0010:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0019:00

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 21 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 Oct23 Oct24 Oct26 Oct27 Oct29 Oct

Top 68% 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.

0.4 days
usual gap
between real wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Wed 21 OctWed 21 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 21 Oct, 19:45 UTC8d ago 4 – running 4
Wed 21 Oct, 09:49 UTC8d ago 5 – 0.4 days 3

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 SOCKS?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include SOCKS: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on SOCKS mean?

For the server browser, SOCKS lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does SOCKS rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place SOCKS at #15,268, in the top 68% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on SOCKS right now?

SOCKS is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

Is SOCKS online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, SOCKS is online. About 7 days 22 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 21 October 2026.

Does SOCKS run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 218, with 201 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 51,525 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,011 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is SOCKS located?

There is no region from SOCKS. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 162.19.159.125:27201.

Which Rust version is SOCKS on?

On Linux, SOCKS runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on SOCKS when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 4 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on SOCKS?

Too few wipes are on record for SOCKS 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. The world it is running now dates from 8 days 1 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does SOCKS run?

A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 2101864330 is what SOCKS runs, made by the game. 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 SOCKS?

The name of SOCKS 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. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join SOCKS?

Enter client.connect 162.19.159.125:27201 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^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.