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

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Honey Badger

Online 216.39.241.155:27915 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#13,500top 61%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe12d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246805:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

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 10 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
15k10k15k20k10 Oct14 Oct18 Oct22 Oct26 Oct30 Oct

Top 61% 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.

0.6 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 17 OctSat 17 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 17 Oct, 18:44 UTC12d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 17 Oct, 04:16 UTC12d ago 1 – 0.6 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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Honey Badger?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Honey Badger: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Honey Badger mean?

For the server browser, Honey Badger lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 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): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does Honey Badger rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Honey Badger at #13,500, in the top 61% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Honey Badger right now?

The current tally at Honey Badger: 0 players across 40 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is Honey Badger online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Honey Badger is online. About 2 days 20 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. 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 10 October 2026.

Does Honey Badger run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 5 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities reached a maximum of 93,729: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,109 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Honey Badger located?

There is no region from Honey Badger. 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 216.39.241.155:27915.

Which Rust version is Honey Badger on?

On Linux, Honey Badger runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on Honey Badger when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 1 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Honey Badger?

Too few wipes are on record for Honey Badger 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. 12 days 9 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does Honey Badger run?

The procedural map on Honey Badger measures 4,000 and comes from the game with seed 1337. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Honey Badger?

The name of Honey Badger says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Carbon plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join Honey Badger?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 216.39.241.155:27915. 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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players It has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 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 Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon, a plugin framework, is what it runs.

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.