The Empire
Offline 85.190.162.224:10400 checked 7h 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 26% of all ranked servers, and #372 of the trio servers (top 60%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 38 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 03:43 UTC20d ago | 2 | – | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Empire?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include The Empire: Community servers, by the numbers and Trio servers: who's hot, who's slipping. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: Trio.
What do the server tags on The Empire mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from The Empire: gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts3 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 3; 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): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $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.
Player counts
How does The Empire rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #5,773 puts The Empire in the top 26% of all ranked servers. Within the trio category, it sits at #372.
How many players are on The Empire right now?
The Empire went quiet 7 hours ago and is offline at the moment. Peak for the week was 3, against an average of 0 players. Look at 13:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 0 players on average.
About the server
Is The Empire online, and how reliable is it?
The server The Empire is not online now; 7 hours have passed since it was last seen. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 96%, with 161 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 3 October 2026.
Does The Empire run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 10 server fps, with a low of 10. Entities reached a maximum of 94,829: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,268 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is The Empire located?
There is no region from The Empire. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 85.190.162.224:10400.
Which Rust version is The Empire on?
On Windows, The Empire runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on The Empire when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 38 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on The Empire?
The Empire's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 20 days 21 hours is when the present world was made.
The rules
Which map does The Empire run?
Generated by the game with seed 6738, the map on The Empire is procedural and 4,000 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on The Empire?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on The Empire. The cap on groups is 3 players (trio). It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Getting in
How do I join The Empire?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 85.190.162.224:10400. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.