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Friends Rust

Offline 209.126.84.122:28015 checked 11h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 10 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,344top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe20d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123416:0023:0006:0013:0021:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304016:0023:0006:0013:0021:0004:00

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 8 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct16 Oct21 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% 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.

0.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 9 OctThu 8 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 28 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 9 Oct, 00:08 UTC20d ago 5 – running 0
Thu 8 Oct, 03:11 UTC21d ago 4 – 0.9 days 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.

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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 Friends Rust?

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

What do the server tags on Friends Rust mean?

For the server browser, Friends Rust lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; 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 code has been set; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Friends Rust rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,344 puts Friends Rust in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Friends Rust right now?

Offline now, Friends Rust was last spotted 11 hours ago. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server details

Is Friends Rust online, and how reliable is it?

The server Friends Rust is not online now; 11 hours have passed since it was last seen. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 5 days 22 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 8 October 2026.

Does Friends Rust run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 30, and it never went below 18. Entities reached a maximum of 18,296: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,224 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Friends Rust located?

No region is published by Friends Rust. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 209.126.84.122:28015.

Which Rust version is Friends Rust on?

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

Wipe days

What happens on Friends Rust when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 4 players at their busiest. 28 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Friends Rust?

Friends Rust's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. 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. 20 days 15 hours is when the present world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Friends Rust run?

A procedural map of 2,000 with seed 1323 is what Friends Rust runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Friends Rust?

The name of Friends Rust says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join Friends Rust?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 209.126.84.122:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp10
Max players Slots: 10.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
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 code has been set.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^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.