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

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

A Rust Server

Online 168.100.163.41:28015 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,318top 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
0123413:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304013:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

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

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.

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 5 OctFri 18 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
Mon 5 Oct, 16:11 UTC23d ago 0 – running 0
Fri 18 Sep, 16:53 UTC40d ago 0 – 17 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include A Rust Server?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include A Rust Server: 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 A Rust Server mean?

For the server browser, A Rust Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank A Rust Server at #15,318, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

The current tally at A Rust Server: 0 players across 40 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server facts

Is A Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

A Rust Server is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 23 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 30 server fps, with a low of 29. The world carried as many as 47,533 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 2,043 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is A Rust Server located?

No region is published by A Rust Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 168.100.163.41:28015.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

On Linux, A Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on A Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

The record of A 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. 23 days 20 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on A 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 A Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join A Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.163.41:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.