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

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BoomRust

Offline 81.163.248.253:28015 checked 1d ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 15 slots 0% full
7-day average1peak 1
Rank#5,748top 26%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe6d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75122:0009:0010:0011:0012:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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
15k10k15k20k7 Oct11 Oct16 Oct20 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 26% 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.

6.8 days
usual gap
between real wipes
67%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctFri 16 OctFri 9 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, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 23 Oct, 10:49 UTC6d ago 1 – running 0
Fri 16 Oct, 15:38 UTC13d ago 1 held half 6.8 days 1
Fri 9 Oct, 17:44 UTC20d ago 1 held half 6.9 days 0
Wed 7 Oct, 18:42 UTC22d 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include BoomRust?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include BoomRust: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it 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 BoomRust mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from BoomRust: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp15 (Max players): There are 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does BoomRust rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #5,748 puts BoomRust in the top 26% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on BoomRust right now?

BoomRust went quiet 32 hours ago and is offline at the moment. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. Look at 11:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.

About the server

Is BoomRust online, and how reliable is it?

The server BoomRust is not online now; 32 hours have passed since it was last seen. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 49, a 29% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 7 October 2026.

Where is BoomRust located?

No region is published by BoomRust. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 81.163.248.253:28015.

Which Rust version is BoomRust on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version BoomRust runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on BoomRust when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on BoomRust?

No next wipe can be predicted for BoomRust: its wipes happen 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 6 days 11 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does BoomRust run?

BoomRust uses a procedural map, which the game generates.

What are the rules and settings on BoomRust?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on BoomRust. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join BoomRust?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 81.163.248.253:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp15
Max players There are 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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.