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LightItUp Rust

Offline 52.119.123.238:28015 checked 5h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 3/ 20 slots 15% full
7-day average2peak 3
Rank#7,421top 33%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123400:0001:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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 Sep30 Sep5 Oct11 Oct16 Oct29 Oct

Top 33% 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.

3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 23:55 UTC26d ago 3 – running 2

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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include LightItUp Rust?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include LightItUp Rust: 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 LightItUp Rust mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from LightItUp Rust: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp20 (Max players): It has 20 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): 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. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does LightItUp Rust rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #7,421 puts LightItUp Rust in the top 33% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on LightItUp Rust right now?

LightItUp Rust went quiet 5 hours ago and is offline at the moment. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 2 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 02:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

About the server

Is LightItUp Rust online, and how reliable is it?

LightItUp Rust shows as offline, last spotted 5 hours ago. It was up 2% of the time over the last 7 full days, 3 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Where is LightItUp Rust located?

No region is published by LightItUp Rust. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 52.119.123.238:28015.

Which Rust version is LightItUp Rust on?

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

Wipe times

What happens on LightItUp Rust when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on LightItUp Rust?

The record of LightItUp Rust's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 7 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does LightItUp Rust run?

LightItUp Rust uses a procedural map, which the game generates.

What are the rules and settings on LightItUp Rust?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on LightItUp Rust. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join LightItUp Rust?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 52.119.123.238:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp20
Max players It has 20 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 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.