Live 73,926 players 11,841 servers online 221 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 162.43.14.212:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,326top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe11d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123414:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020014:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

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 18 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
15k10k15k20k18 Oct20 Oct22 Oct25 Oct27 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% 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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rust Server: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Rust Server: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 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): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #15,326, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

0 players are on Rust Server at the moment, out of 50 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server facts

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 days 4 hours ago. 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 18 October 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 97, and it never went below 68. Entities reached a maximum of 48,554: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,051 MB of memory was used. 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. Connect at 162.43.14.212:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

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. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. 11 days 6 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 50000 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. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 162.43.14.212:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players There are 50 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 The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.