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

Camera-shy: no banner published A Rust Server Onlineright now
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A Rust Server

Online 64.40.8.189:28015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,270top 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
0123408:0017:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

01020304008:0017:0003:0012:0021:0006:00

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 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 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.

17.1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctTue 15 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 03:56 UTC28d ago 0 – running 0
Tue 15 Sep, 00:54 UTC45d ago 0 – 17.1 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.

Lists and 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. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; 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): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): There are 40 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; ^x (Unknown flag): This flag has no entry in Facepunch's documentation. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does A Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,270 puts A Rust Server in the top 69% of all 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.

Server facts

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

As of now, A Rust Server is online. About 42 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does A Rust Server run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 30 as the lowest. At its peak it held 107,424 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 13,713 MB of memory was used. 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. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 64.40.8.189:28015.

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?

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 A Rust Server?

A Rust Server'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 3 hours.

The rules

Which map does A Rust Server run?

The procedural map on A Rust Server measures 5,000 and comes from the game with seed 121212. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on A Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of A Rust Server. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is off.

How to join

How do I join A Rust Server?

Enter client.connect 64.40.8.189:28015 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,^z,^y,^x,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp40
Max players There are 40 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 The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^y
Carbon This server uses Carbon for plugins.

Other

^x
Unknown flag This flag has no entry in Facepunch's documentation.

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.