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

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Rust Enthusiasts

Online 198.73.57.80:28025 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,269top 68%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe25d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
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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 4 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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 Oct

Top 68% 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 interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Enthusiasts?

You'll find Rust Enthusiasts 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 Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Rust Enthusiasts mean?

For the server browser, Rust Enthusiasts lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust Enthusiasts rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Enthusiasts at #15,269, in the top 68% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Enthusiasts right now?

Rust Enthusiasts is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

About the server

Is Rust Enthusiasts online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust Enthusiasts is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 1 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 4 October 2026.

Does Rust Enthusiasts run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 97 server fps, with a low of 81. The world carried as many as 66,497 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 2,606 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rust Enthusiasts located?

There is no region from Rust Enthusiasts. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 198.73.57.80:28025.

Which Rust version is Rust Enthusiasts on?

On Windows, Rust Enthusiasts runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Enthusiasts?

The record of Rust Enthusiasts'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. 25 days 18 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Enthusiasts run?

The procedural map on Rust Enthusiasts measures 3,500 and comes from the game with seed 648253. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Enthusiasts?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Enthusiasts. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Enthusiasts?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 198.73.57.80:28025. 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs166652
Build The game build is 166652.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^y
Carbon This server uses Carbon for plugins.

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.