Live 84,816 players 11,846 servers online 288 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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Celebrity profile

Rust Server

Online 162.43.16.128:28015 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,335top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe13d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123415:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040015:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

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 17 Sep. 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 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.

0
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 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 16 Oct, 11:08 UTC13d ago 0 – 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.

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 filters bring it up 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?

For the server browser, Rust Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $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.

Population

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,335 puts Rust Server 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. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server details

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust Server is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 days 19 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 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 168 server fps, with a low of 104. Entities reached a maximum of 48,459: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,914 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by 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 162.43.16.128:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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. Its current world has been live for 13 days 3 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

The procedural map on Rust Server measures 3,000 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 Rust Server?

The name of Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser lists it under Community. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

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How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 162.43.16.128:28015. 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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build It's on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$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.