Live 89,289 players 11,829 servers online 113 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 RustServer Onlineright now
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RustServer

Online 85.131.253.153:28015 checked 1h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,426top 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
0123419:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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.

18.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Tue 6 OctThu 17 Sep
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
Tue 6 Oct, 20:25 UTC21d ago 0 – running 0
Thu 17 Sep, 23:19 UTC40d ago 0 – 18.9 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.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RustServer?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include RustServer: 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 RustServer mean?

For the server browser, RustServer lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $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.

Population

How does RustServer rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank RustServer at #15,426, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on RustServer right now?

0 players are on RustServer at the moment, out of 50 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is RustServer online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RustServer is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 days 19 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does RustServer run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 191, and it never went below 39. Entities reached a maximum of 49,616: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,859 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is RustServer located?

There is no region from RustServer. 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 85.131.253.153:28015.

Which Rust version is RustServer on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version RustServer runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on RustServer when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on RustServer?

The record of RustServer's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 21 days 21 hours.

Rules and settings

Which map does RustServer run?

A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 19686 is what RustServer 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 RustServer?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustServer. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. 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 RustServer?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 85.131.253.153:28015. 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp50
Max players Slots: 50.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$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.