'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]
Online NA 32.219.237.28:28215 checked 9m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 35% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 10 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:53 UTC FW26d ago | 3 | – | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
You'll find 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Community servers, by the numbers, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] mean?
For the server browser, 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp80 (Max players): It has 80 slots; 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] sits at #3,972, inside the top 18% of ranked servers and at #663 in North America.
How many players are on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] right now?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is holding 0 players, with 80 slots in total. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 3. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 07:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Server facts
Is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] online, and how reliable is it?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 4 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 124, and it never went below 85. Entities reached a maximum of 107,015: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,807 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] located?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 32.219.237.28:28215.
Which Rust version is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] on?
On Linux, 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] 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 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 10 hours after it began.
What is the wipe schedule on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Wipes on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 10 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
The rules
Which map does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run?
Generated by the game with seed 479521753, the map on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is procedural and 4,250 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
The name of 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Enter client.connect 32.219.237.28:28215 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/rcT5m4VwSM.