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

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MAGIC RUST

Online 203.16.163.101:28278 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#11,200top 50%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe18d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5222:0007:0016:0001:0010:0019:00

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 11 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
15k10k15k20k11 Oct15 Oct18 Oct22 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

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wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 11 Oct, 15:08 UTC18d ago 1 – running 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include MAGIC RUST?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include MAGIC RUST: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on MAGIC RUST mean?

These are the tags MAGIC RUST publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does MAGIC RUST rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #11,200 puts MAGIC RUST in the top 50% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on MAGIC RUST right now?

The current tally at MAGIC RUST: 0 players across 40 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

About the server

Is MAGIC RUST online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, MAGIC RUST is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 days 8 hours 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 11 October 2026.

Does MAGIC RUST run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 216, with 101 as the lowest. At its peak it held 30,062 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,932 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is MAGIC RUST located?

No region is published by MAGIC RUST. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 203.16.163.101:28278.

Which Rust version is MAGIC RUST on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version MAGIC RUST runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on MAGIC RUST when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on MAGIC RUST?

Too few wipes are on record for MAGIC RUST to reveal 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. The world it is running now dates from 18 days 5 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does MAGIC RUST run?

The procedural map on MAGIC RUST measures 2,500 and comes from the game with seed 50000. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on MAGIC RUST?

No gather rate appears in the name of MAGIC RUST. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join MAGIC RUST?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 203.16.163.101:28278. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
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 Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

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.