Live 41,406 players 11,624 servers online 84 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 163.44.159.67:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,339top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe99d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608008:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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 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

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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?

You'll find Rust Server on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it 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?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2631 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2631; cs158240 (Build): It's on game build 158240; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. 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?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,339 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 50 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server facts

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust Server is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 days 10 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 60, with 57 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 44,737: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 1,922 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by 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 163.44.159.67:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record of Rust Server's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 99 days 21 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 1234. 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?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rust Server. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 163.44.159.67:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2631,gmrust,cs158240,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2631
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2631.
cs158240
Build It's on game build 158240.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$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.