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

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Rust

Online 64.40.9.245:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,339top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe21d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123408:0017:0002:0010:0020:0005:00

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 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

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.

1
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 1, 36 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 7 Oct, 08:29 UTC21d ago 1 – running 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 same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust?

You'll find Rust on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Rust mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Rust: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Rust rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Rust at #15,339, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust right now?

Rust is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server facts

Is Rust online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 days 6 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Rust run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 60 server fps, with a low of 60. At its peak it held 12,635 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 1,980 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Rust located?

No region is published by Rust. 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 64.40.9.245:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust on?

On Linux, Rust runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Rust when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 36 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust to reveal its rhythm. 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 21 days 22 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rust run?

A procedural map of 2,000 with seed 1337 is what 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 Rust?

The name of Rust says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join Rust?

Enter client.connect 64.40.9.245:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp50
Max players There are 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

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.