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

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Rust START Server

Online 212.22.93.159:28024 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 10 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,970top 31%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe21d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608022:0007:0016:0000:0009:0019:00

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 7 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
15k10k15k20k7 Oct11 Oct15 Oct20 Oct24 Oct28 Oct

Top 31% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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
Wed 7 Oct, 20:09 UTC21d ago 1 – running 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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust START Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rust START Server: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Rust START Server mean?

These are the tags Rust START Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): There are 10 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; cs167058 (Build): The game build is 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does Rust START Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #6,970 puts Rust START Server in the top 31% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust START Server right now?

The current tally at Rust START Server: 0 players across 10 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players.

About the server

Is Rust START Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust START Server is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 8 days 8 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 7 October 2026.

Does Rust START Server run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 62 server fps, with a low of 18. At its peak it held 17,929 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 1,685 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rust START Server located?

No region is published by Rust START Server. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 212.22.93.159:28024.

Which Rust version is Rust START Server on?

On Windows, Rust START Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on Rust START Server 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 Rust START Server?

Wipes on Rust START Server come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 21 days. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust START Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 166494, the map on Rust START Server is procedural and 2,000 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust START Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust START Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rust START Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 212.22.93.159:28024. 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?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167058,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players There are 10 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.
cs167058
Build The game build is 167058.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

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.