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

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A Rust Server

Online 51.38.40.62:29015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,335top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 200 max
Last wipe22d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0017:0021:0001:0004:0008:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040013:0017:0021:0001:0004:0008:00

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 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

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.

8.5 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 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Tue 6 OctMon 21 SepSat 19 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 6 Oct, 17:02 UTC22d ago 2 – running 0
Mon 21 Sep, 14:17 UTC37d ago 4 halved by day 1 15.1 days 1
Sat 19 Sep, 16:22 UTC39d ago 4 – 1.9 days 1

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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include A Rust Server?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include A Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on A Rust Server mean?

These are the tags A Rust Server publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts200 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 200; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank A Rust Server at #15,335, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on A Rust Server right now?

The current tally at A Rust Server: 0 players across 40 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

About the server

Is A Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, A Rust Server is up and running. About 18 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 83% of the time over the last 7 full days, 139 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 238, and it never went below 235. The world carried as many as 150,927 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 3,248 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is A Rust Server located?

There is no region from A Rust Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 51.38.40.62:29015.

Which Rust version is A Rust Server on?

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

The wipe schedule

What happens on A Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 5 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Server?

No next wipe can be predicted for A Rust Server: its wipes happen at irregular times. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 22 days 15 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The procedural map on A Rust Server measures 6,000 and comes from the game with seed 1337. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

The name of A Rust Server says nothing about gather rate. Teams can reach 200 players. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join A Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 51.38.40.62:29015 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts200,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
ts200
Group limit Each team is capped at 200.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

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.