Live 38,590 players 11,700 servers online 91 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 162.43.52.216:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 1 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,353top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123403:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

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 22 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
15k10k15k20k22 Sep29 Sep7 Oct14 Oct22 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.

9.7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctTue 22 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, 03:02 UTC26d ago 1 – running 0
Tue 22 Sep, 10:42 UTC36d ago 1 halved by day 2 9.7 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.

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 and Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p; 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; mp1 (Max players): It has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,353 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 1 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server details

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 days 5 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 22 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 190, with 108 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 48,494: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,797 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. Connect at 162.43.52.216:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

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. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 2.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record of Rust Server's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. 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. 26 days 23 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

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?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. no fighting other players: that is the pve mode. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 162.43.52.216:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^p,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp1
Max players It has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other.

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.