Live 89,289 players 11,829 servers online 14 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

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

Camera-shy: no banner published Rust Server Onlineright now
Celebrity profile

Rust Server

Online 85.131.244.162:28015 checked 2h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 1 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,373top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe21d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% 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.

0
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 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 7 Oct, 16:34 UTC21d 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 Server?

You'll find Rust Server 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.

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

For the server browser, Rust Server lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp1 (Max players): It has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Rust Server at #15,373, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust Server right now?

The current tally at Rust Server: 0 players across 1 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

About the server

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Rust Server is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 days 21 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 79, and it never went below 34. The world carried as many as 113,431 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 4,959 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 85.131.244.162:28015.

Which Rust version is Rust Server on?

On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Rust Server when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server 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. 21 days 3 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 428 is what Rust Server runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 85.131.244.162:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp1
Max players It has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$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.