Friends of Rust
Online NA 192.154.226.214:28080 checked 13m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 30% of all ranked servers, top 56% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 30 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:07 UTC FW28d ago | 2 | – | running | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Friends of Rust?
You'll find Friends of Rust on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Friends of Rust mean?
For the server browser, Friends of Rust lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How does Friends of Rust rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Friends of Rust sits at #6,627, inside the top 30% of ranked servers and at #1,049 in North America.
How many players are on Friends of Rust right now?
The current tally at Friends of Rust: 0 players across 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 23:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
About the server
Is Friends of Rust online, and how reliable is it?
Friends of Rust is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 11 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 85%, with 143 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does Friends of Rust run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 111 server fps, with a low of 58. The world carried as many as 125,080 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 5,829 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is Friends of Rust located?
With its NA tag, Friends of Rust lists itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 192.154.226.214:28080.
Which Rust version is Friends of Rust on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Friends of Rust runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
The wipe schedule
What happens on Friends of Rust when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. 30 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on Friends of Rust?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for Friends of Rust, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 28 days 4 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
Map and rules
Which map does Friends of Rust run?
A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 2098159377 is what Friends of Rust runs, made by the game. 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 Friends of Rust?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Friends of Rust. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs pve, no fighting other players. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join Friends of Rust?
Enter client.connect 192.154.226.214:28080 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.