Live 42,340 players 11,701 servers online 101 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 162.43.23.124:28015 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 5 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#5,075top 23%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75102:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040002:0011:0020:0005:0014:0000:00

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 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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 23% 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 10

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 1, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 14:13 UTC26d ago 1 – running 0
Sun 20 Sep, 11:38 UTC38d ago 1 halved by day 10 12.1 days 1
Sat 19 Sep, 11:46 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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rust Server: 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.

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): There are 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #5,075, in the top 23% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

The current tally at Rust Server: 0 players across 5 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 09:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server details

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 4 days ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 166, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 19 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 141, with 81 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 73,058 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,780 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rust Server located?

There is no region from 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 162.43.23.124:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

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

The wipe schedule

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in. 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 10.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

There is no next wipe to predict on Rust Server, because wipes come at irregular times. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 26 days 7 hours.

The rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

The procedural map on Rust Server measures 3,500 and comes from the game with seed 1158176010. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. 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 162.43.23.124:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players There are 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.