Live 38,205 players 11,684 servers online 95 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

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

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RUST Server

Online 216.245.177.8:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 30 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,353top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe51d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123403:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

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 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.

Lists and 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?

For the server browser, RUST Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp30 (Max players): Slots: 30; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2633; cs163207 (Build): It's on game build 163207; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. 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?

The last seven days of player hours place RUST Server at #15,353, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on RUST Server right now?

RUST Server is holding 0 players, with 30 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

About the server

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 13 days 10 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. 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 103, with 90 as the lowest. At its peak it held 70,030 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 6,420 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RUST Server located?

No region is published by RUST Server. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 216.245.177.8:28015.

Which Rust version is RUST Server on?

On Windows, RUST Server runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163207. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on RUST Server?

The record of RUST Server's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 51 days 5 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does RUST Server run?

Generated by the game with seed 648252, the map on RUST Server is procedural and 3,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

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. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join RUST Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 216.245.177.8:28015. 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?,v2633,gmrust,cs163207,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp30
Max players Slots: 30.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2633.
cs163207
Build It's on game build 163207.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.