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

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RUST

Online 185.172.173.47:27022 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,318top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe3d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0022:0007:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 26 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k26 Oct27 Oct28 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 same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RUST?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include RUST: 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; Last wipe: In the last week.

What do the server tags on RUST mean?

For the server browser, RUST lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does RUST rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place RUST at #15,318, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on RUST right now?

0 players are on RUST at the moment, out of 50 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server facts

Is RUST online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RUST is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 22 hours ago. It was up 98% of the time over the last 2 full days, 47 of 48 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 26 October 2026.

Does RUST run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 217 server fps, with a low of 164. Entities reached a maximum of 47,202: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 1,644 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

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 185.172.173.47:27022.

Which Rust version is RUST on?

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

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on RUST?

Too few wipes are on record for RUST to reveal its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. The world it is running now dates from 3 days 1 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does RUST run?

Generated by the game with seed 12345, the map on RUST 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 RUST?

The name of RUST says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join RUST?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 185.172.173.47:27022. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
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 The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.