Live 102,237 players 11,898 servers online 329 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 162.43.24.66:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 3 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,310top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe23d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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 5 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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct9 Oct17 Oct21 Oct25 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.

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

No hourly players around its wipes yet.

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 6 Oct, 07:14 UTC23d ago – – running 1

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 Rust Pop Watch lists include Rust Server: Community servers, by the numbers. It appears under these filters 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): Survival, standard Rust style; mp3 (Max players): It has 3 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): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Rust Server at #15,310, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

The current tally at Rust Server: 0 players across 3 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Rust Server is live at the moment. About 11 days 21 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 5 October 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 170 server fps, with a low of 101. At its peak it held 48,548 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 2,939 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. 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 162.43.24.66:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to reveal 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 23 days 10 hours.

The rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 50000, the map on Rust Server is procedural and 3,000 in size. 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?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 162.43.24.66:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp3
Max players It has 3 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 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.