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RU:RUST

Online 46.0.24.240:28015 checked 14m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 7
Rank#4,213top 19%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe3d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246806:0015:0000:0009:0018:0003:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 19% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

11.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 3

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 24 OctFri 23 OctThu 1 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 41 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 24 Oct, 00:25 UTC4d ago 7 – running 0
Fri 23 Oct, 06:57 UTC4d ago 0 – 0.7 days 0
Thu 1 Oct, 18:24 UTC FW26d ago 1 halved by day 3 21.5 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 RU:RUST?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include RU:RUST: European Rust servers, live and Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

What do the server tags on RU:RUST mean?

For the server browser, RU:RUST lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^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 RU:RUST rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #4,213 puts RU:RUST in the top 19% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on RU:RUST right now?

0 players are on RU:RUST at the moment, out of 100 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 7. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 18:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.

Server details

Is RU:RUST online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RU:RUST is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 23 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does RU:RUST run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 110, and it never went below 78. The world carried as many as 63,085 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 2,516 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RU:RUST located?

Its name points to Europe, although RU:RUST publishes no region tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 46.0.24.240:28015.

Which Rust version is RU:RUST on?

On Windows, RU:RUST runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on RU:RUST when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 41 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 3.

What is the wipe schedule on RU:RUST?

There is no next wipe to predict on RU:RUST, because wipes come at irregular times. 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. 3 days 23 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does RU:RUST run?

A procedural map of 3,400 with seed 61738452 is what RU:RUST 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 RU:RUST?

The name of RU:RUST says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. Carbon plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join RU:RUST?

Enter client.connect 46.0.24.240:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp100
Max players It has 100 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 It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Mods and access

^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.