Cold Beer & Rust
Online NA 66.51.99.81:28055 checked 9m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 35% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 14h. The force wipe
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Cold Beer & Rust?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Cold Beer & Rust: Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live, Rust creative servers, watched and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Cold Beer & Rust mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from Cold Beer & Rust: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts16 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 16; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^c (Creative): No gathering needed: sandbox building, build whatever you like; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How does Cold Beer & Rust rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Cold Beer & Rust sits at #7,805, inside the top 35% of ranked servers and at #1,148 in North America.
How many players are on Cold Beer & Rust right now?
The current tally at Cold Beer & Rust: 0 players across 100 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. Look at 19:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.
About the server
Is Cold Beer & Rust online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, Cold Beer & Rust is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 9 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 3 October 2026.
Does Cold Beer & Rust run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 8 server fps, with a low of 5. Entities reached a maximum of 117,773: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,439 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is Cold Beer & Rust located?
With its NA tag, Cold Beer & Rust lists itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.99.81:28055.
Which Rust version is Cold Beer & Rust on?
On Linux, Cold Beer & Rust runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What is the wipe schedule on Cold Beer & Rust?
An estimate from the force wipe gives Cold Beer & Rust's next wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 25 days 2 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
Map and rules
Which map does Cold Beer & Rust run?
The procedural map on Cold Beer & Rust measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1092026. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Cold Beer & Rust?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Cold Beer & Rust. Teams can reach 16 players. building in a sandbox, with no gathering: that is the build & creative mode. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched off.
Getting in
How do I join Cold Beer & Rust?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.81:28055. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.