Live 102,609 players 11,866 servers online 551 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

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

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RUST FOR FUN

Online 51.79.218.241:25042 checked 14m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,289top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0014:0015:0016:0017:0018:00

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 1 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct6 Oct11 Oct17 Oct22 Oct27 Oct

Top 69% 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.

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctThu 1 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, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:15 UTC FW28d ago 1 – running 1
Thu 1 Oct, 10:33 UTC28d ago 1 – 0.3 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RUST FOR FUN?

You'll find RUST FOR FUN on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on RUST FOR FUN mean?

For the server browser, RUST FOR FUN lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): There are 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; 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): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^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.

Population

How does RUST FOR FUN rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank RUST FOR FUN at #15,289, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on RUST FOR FUN right now?

RUST FOR FUN is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server details

Is RUST FOR FUN online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, RUST FOR FUN is online. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 0, a 0% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 1 October 2026.

Does RUST FOR FUN run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 227 server fps, with a low of 211. Entities reached a maximum of 40,144: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,555 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RUST FOR FUN located?

No region is published by RUST FOR FUN. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 51.79.218.241:25042.

Which Rust version is RUST FOR FUN on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version RUST FOR FUN runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on RUST FOR FUN when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on RUST FOR FUN?

RUST FOR FUN's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. 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. Its current world has been live for 28 days.

The rules

Which map does RUST FOR FUN run?

The procedural map on RUST FOR FUN measures 2,800 and comes from the game with seed 60000. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on RUST FOR FUN?

The name of RUST FOR FUN says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join RUST FOR FUN?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.79.218.241:25042. 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,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp40
Max players There are 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
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 Region code left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^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.