The Rust Server
Offline 43.227.71.245:20631 checked 1d 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 19 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 00:27 UTC20d ago | 0 | – | 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 Rust Server?
You'll find The Rust Server on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it 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 The Rust Server mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from The Rust Server: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167231 (Build): Game build: 167231; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How does The Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,310 puts The Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on The Rust Server right now?
Offline now, The Rust Server was last spotted 41 hours ago. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
Server details
Is The Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?
The Rust Server shows as offline, last spotted 41 hours ago. About 18 days 23 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 86% of the time over the last 7 full days, 145 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 19 September 2026.
Does The Rust Server run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 121, and it never went below 63. At its peak it held 45,556 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 3,694 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is The Rust Server located?
There is no region from The Rust Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 43.227.71.245:20631.
Which Rust version is The Rust Server on?
On Linux, The Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
The wipe schedule
What happens on The Rust Server when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Server?
Too few wipes are on record for The Rust Server 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. The world it is running now dates from 20 days 17 hours.
The rules
Which map does The Rust Server run?
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 1175069549 is what The Rust Server runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join The Rust Server?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 43.227.71.245:20631. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.