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

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rust

Offline 176.36.110.167:28015 checked 7d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,338top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe9d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

1.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Tue 20 OctMon 19 OctMon 19 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 20 Oct, 09:49 UTC9d ago 1 – running 0
Mon 19 Oct, 23:43 UTC9d ago 1 – 0.4 days 0
Mon 19 Oct, 10:03 UTC10d ago 2 – 0.6 days 1
Sun 18 Oct, 19:17 UTC10d ago 2 – 0.6 days 0
Thu 15 Oct, 11:01 UTC14d ago 1 – 3.3 days 0
Mon 12 Oct, 08:12 UTC17d ago 1 halved by day 1 3.1 days 0
Sat 10 Oct, 14:36 UTC19d ago 1 – 1.7 days 0
Sat 10 Oct, 05:44 UTC19d ago 0 – 0.4 days 0
Sun 4 Oct, 13:29 UTC25d ago 1 – 5.7 days 0
Sat 3 Oct, 13:37 UTC26d ago 1 – 1 days 1

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 rust?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include rust: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on rust mean?

For the server browser, rust lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; 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): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does rust rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank rust at #15,338, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on rust right now?

The last sighting of rust was 7 days 5 hours ago, and it is offline now. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

About the server

Is rust online, and how reliable is it?

Down at the moment: rust was last seen 7 days 5 hours ago. It was up 1% of the time over the last 7 full days, 1 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 15 September 2026.

Where is rust located?

No region is published by rust. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 176.36.110.167:28015.

Which Rust version is rust on?

On Windows, rust runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on rust when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. 1 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. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on rust?

No next wipe can be predicted for rust: its wipes happen at irregular times. 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 9 days 4 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does rust run?

A procedural map is what rust runs, generated by the game.

What are the rules and settings on rust?

No gather rate appears in the name of rust. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join rust?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 176.36.110.167:28015. 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,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players Slots: 100.
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 It's on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.