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

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Dead Island Rust

Online 74.208.108.126:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 10 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#10,574top 47%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe3d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75104:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040004:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

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 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 47% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

8.8 days
usual gap
between real wipes
40%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sun 25 OctWed 21 OctMon 12 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 14 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 25 Oct, 21:55 UTC3d ago 1 – running 0
Wed 21 Oct, 09:46 UTC7d ago 1 halved by day 1 4.5 days 0
Mon 12 Oct, 14:40 UTC16d ago 1 halved by day 5 8.8 days 0
Sat 3 Oct, 09:26 UTC25d ago 1 halved by day 3 9.2 days 0
Tue 22 Sep, 20:24 UTC36d ago 1 halved by day 1 10.5 days 0
Sun 20 Sep, 21:11 UTC38d ago 1 – 2 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 Dead Island Rust?

You'll find Dead Island Rust on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

What do the server tags on Dead Island Rust mean?

For the server browser, Dead Island Rust lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; 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): It's on 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. 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 Dead Island Rust rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Dead Island Rust at #10,574, in the top 47% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Dead Island Rust right now?

Dead Island Rust is holding 0 players, with 10 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 08:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

About the server

Is Dead Island Rust online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Dead Island Rust is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 days 14 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 111, a 66% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does Dead Island Rust run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 158 server fps, with a low of 102. At its peak it held 65,674 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 2,434 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Dead Island Rust located?

There is no region from Dead Island Rust. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 74.208.108.126:28015.

Which Rust version is Dead Island Rust on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Dead Island Rust runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Dead Island Rust when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. 14 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 2.

What is the wipe schedule on Dead Island Rust?

There is no next wipe to predict on Dead Island Rust, because wipes come at irregular times. 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 3 days 6 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does Dead Island Rust run?

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 799999999 is what Dead Island 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 Dead Island Rust?

The name of Dead Island Rust says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join Dead Island Rust?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 74.208.108.126:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp10
Max players Slots: 10.
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 It's on 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.

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.