Live 32,207 players 11,615 servers online 66 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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Rustcores

Online 168.231.126.210:28015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,351top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123406:0015:0000:0009:0019:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608006:0015:0000:0009:0019:0004:00

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.

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctWed 16 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
Thu 1 Oct, 19:21 UTC FW27d ago 0 – running 0
Wed 16 Sep, 11:39 UTC42d ago 0 – 15.3 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 Rustcores?

You'll find Rustcores on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Rustcores mean?

For the server browser, Rustcores lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; 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; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Rustcores rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,351 puts Rustcores in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rustcores right now?

The current tally at Rustcores: 0 players across 100 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

Is Rustcores online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rustcores is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 5 days 21 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Rustcores run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 48, and it never went below 19. Entities reached a maximum of 120,667: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,479 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Rustcores located?

There is no region from Rustcores. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 168.231.126.210:28015.

Which Rust version is Rustcores on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 is the version Rustcores runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on Rustcores 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 Rustcores?

The record of Rustcores'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 27 days 10 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does Rustcores run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1337 is what Rustcores runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rustcores?

The name of Rustcores says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join Rustcores?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.231.126.210:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
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.
cs167398
Build Game build: 167398.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.