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

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RUST Server

Online 199.60.101.251:28025 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 30 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,339top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe56d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608008:0017:0002:0011:0021:0006:00

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

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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RUST Server?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include RUST Server: Community servers, by the numbers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on RUST Server mean?

These are the tags RUST Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp30 (Max players): There are 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2632 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2632; cs162434 (Build): Game build: 162434; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does RUST Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,339 puts RUST Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on RUST Server right now?

0 players are on RUST Server at the moment, out of 30 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server details

Is RUST Server online, and how reliable is it?

RUST Server is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 days ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does RUST Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 55, with 19 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 96,915 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 5,317 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is RUST Server located?

No region is published by RUST Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 199.60.101.251:28025.

Which Rust version is RUST Server on?

On Windows, RUST Server runs Rust network protocol 2632 and build 162434. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on RUST Server?

Too few wipes are on record for RUST Server to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 56 days 10 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does RUST Server run?

The procedural map on RUST Server measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 1337. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. On the map name: Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on RUST Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of RUST Server. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join RUST Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 199.60.101.251:28025. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2632,gmrust,cs162434,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp30
Max players There are 30 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2632
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2632.
cs162434
Build Game build: 162434.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.