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

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RUST HUNTERS

Online 66.163.118.215:7036 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#7,976top 36%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe8d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75101:0010:0020:0005:0014:0023:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608001:0010:0020:0005:0014:0023:00

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 22 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
12.5k5k7.5k10k22 Oct23 Oct25 Oct26 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 36% 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, 3 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 21 Oct, 23:34 UTC8d ago 3 – 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.

Lists and tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RUST HUNTERS?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include RUST HUNTERS: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on RUST HUNTERS mean?

For the server browser, RUST HUNTERS lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^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. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does RUST HUNTERS rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #7,976 puts RUST HUNTERS in the top 36% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on RUST HUNTERS right now?

0 players are on RUST HUNTERS at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. Look at 07:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 0 players on average.

About the server

Is RUST HUNTERS online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RUST HUNTERS is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 20 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 143, a 85% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 21 October 2026.

Does RUST HUNTERS run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 38, and it never went below 20. Entities reached a maximum of 105,329: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,603 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RUST HUNTERS located?

No region is published by RUST HUNTERS. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.163.118.215:7036.

Which Rust version is RUST HUNTERS on?

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

The wipe schedule

What happens on RUST HUNTERS when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 3 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on RUST HUNTERS?

Too few wipes are on record for RUST HUNTERS to reveal its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. The world it is running now dates from 8 days.

Rules and settings

Which map does RUST HUNTERS run?

Generated by the game with seed 94412, the map on RUST HUNTERS is procedural and 4,250 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RUST HUNTERS?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on RUST HUNTERS. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join RUST HUNTERS?

Enter client.connect 66.163.118.215:7036 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?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.