Live 78,222 players 11,801 servers online 109 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 162.43.35.187:28015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,323top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe25d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123421:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 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.

0.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 3 OctFri 2 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 28 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 3 Oct, 07:36 UTC25d ago 2 – running 0
Fri 2 Oct, 11:02 UTC26d ago 1 – 0.9 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 Rust Pop Watch lists include Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up 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; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; 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; cs166586 (Build): It's on game build 166586; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Rust Server at #15,323, 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 50 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server facts

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 2 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 115, with 63 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 102,729: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,204 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. You'll find it at 162.43.35.187:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 28 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Rust Server's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. Its current world has been live for 25 days 13 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1211081291, the map on Rust Server is procedural and 4,000 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?

The name of Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 162.43.35.187:28015. 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,cs166586,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
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.
cs166586
Build It's on game build 166586.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.