Live 44,070 players 11,698 servers online 100 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 162.43.21.201:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 10 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,349top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123402:0011:0020:0004:0013:0023:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 19 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

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

6.6 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctSun 20 SepSat 19 Sep
00.250.50.751+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 2 Oct, 14:19 UTC26d ago 0 – running 0
Sun 20 Sep, 06:48 UTC38d ago 1 halved by day 1 12.3 days 0
Sat 19 Sep, 07:49 UTC39d ago 1 – 1 days 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.

Server 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?

For the server browser, Rust Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. 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 #15,349 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 10 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server facts

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 11 days 1 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 19 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 129, with 74 as the lowest. At its peak it held 69,682 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,451 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 162.43.21.201:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

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

Wipe times

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

No next wipe can be predicted for Rust Server: its wipes happen at irregular times. 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 26 days 10 hours.

The rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 595052069 is what Rust Server runs, made by the game. 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. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 162.43.21.201:28015 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp10
Max players Slots: 10.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.