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Rust Outpost

Online NA 66.51.96.83:28000 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#14,572top 66% · #1454 in NA
RegionNANA · group quad
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246813:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

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 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 66% of all ranked servers, top 78% in NA, and #589 of the quad servers (top 71%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 6h. The force wipe · high confidence

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 6hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 08:08 UTC27d ago 0 – 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 interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust Outpost?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Rust Outpost: Community servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Rust Outpost mean?

For the server browser, Rust Outpost lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. 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 Rust Outpost rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Rust Outpost sits at #14,572, inside the top 66% of ranked servers and at #1,454 in North America. Within the quad category, it sits at #589.

How many players are on Rust Outpost right now?

The current tally at Rust Outpost: 0 players across 50 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is Rust Outpost online, and how reliable is it?

Rust Outpost is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Outpost run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 5, and it never went below 5. The world carried as many as 95,185 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 2,489 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Rust Outpost located?

In North America, Rust Outpost lists itself with its NA tag. 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 66.51.96.83:28000.

Which Rust version is Rust Outpost on?

On Linux, Rust Outpost runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Rust Outpost when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Outpost?

Rust Outpost wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 27 days 4 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Outpost run?

Generated by the game with seed 1074944835, the map on Rust Outpost is procedural and 4,000 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Outpost?

The name of Rust Outpost says nothing about gather rate. quad is the group rule, capping teams at 4 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join Rust Outpost?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.96.83:28000. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts4,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts4
Group limit No team can exceed 4 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it under North America.

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.