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Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid

Online 205.178.168.68:28016 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 48/ 250 slots 19% full +9+24%against this time yesterday
7-day average50peak 121
Rank#344top 2%
Regionus1no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe13d agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
025507510021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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 26 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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 2% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
180
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 9

Coming wipes

7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
14d 20hThu 12 Nov, 17:39 UTC
35d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
42d 20hThu 10 Dec, 17:39 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
050100150200+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 186, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 17:39 UTC13d ago 186 – running 32
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 203 halved by day 7 14 days 12
Thu 17 Sep, 17:44 UTC41d ago 151 halved by day 11 14 days 10

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

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Server tags

Who runs Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid and 2 other servers we track publish a rustempires.com hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

You'll find Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and The roleplay set, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 25+ on average.

What do the server tags on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp250 (Max players): Slots: 250; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $rus1 (Region code): Region code: us1; ^b (Biweekly): Every two weeks it wipes; ^r (Roleplay): This is a roleplay server; ^p (PvE): No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger; ^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. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid at #344, in the top 2% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid right now?

The current tally at Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid: 48 players across 250 slots. Averaging 50 players across seven days, it topped out at 121. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 00:00 UTC, averaging 79 players.

Server facts

Is Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid is online. About 3 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 56, with 3 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 368,225: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 11,458 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid located?

No region is published by Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid; its region code is us1. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 205.178.168.68:28016.

Which Rust version is Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid on?

On Windows, Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 180 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 5 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 9.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid keeps to a every 4 weeks on Thursday at 17:39 UTC wipe rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 13 days 3 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe every two weeks is what its tags promise.

The rules

Which map does Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid run?

The procedural map on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 133856400. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. jobs and towns under roleplay rules: that is the roleplay mode. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 205.178.168.68:28016. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://rustempires.com/.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$rus1,v2635,^b,^r,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp250
Max players Slots: 250.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$rus1
Region code Region code: us1.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly Every two weeks it wipes.

Gameplay

^r
Roleplay This is a roleplay server.
^p
PvE No fighting between players: the world supplies the danger.

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.