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Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published Rust Server Onlineright now
Celebrity profile

Rust Server

Online 168.100.161.129:28089 checked 6m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 60 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,405top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe10d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123400:0009:0018:0004:0013:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246800:0009:0018:0004:0013:0022:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 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.

32.4 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 17 OctMon 14 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 17 Oct, 07:01 UTC10d ago 0 – running 0
Mon 14 Sep, 21:02 UTC43d ago 0 – 32.4 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?

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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp60 (Max players): Slots: 60; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. 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?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,405 puts Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

The current tally at Rust Server: 0 players across 60 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

About the server

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 10 days 15 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 5 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities reached a maximum of 69,600: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,884 MB of memory was used. 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 168.100.161.129:28089.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version Rust Server runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began.

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. The world it is running now dates from 10 days 16 hours.

The rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 123456, the map on Rust Server is procedural and 3,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

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. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.161.129:28089. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp60,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp60
Max players Slots: 60.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs167781
Build It's on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

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.