Live 34,855 players 11,686 servers online 96 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

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

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Rust U

Online 95.156.198.64:20000 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,358top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe7d 15hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123404:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02.557.51004:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

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 1 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k1 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 15hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 15hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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
Thu 1 Oct, 18:44 UTC FW27d 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rust U?

You'll find Rust U 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 U mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Rust U: gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; 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): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. 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 Rust U rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,358 puts Rust U in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Rust U right now?

The current tally at Rust U: 0 players across 50 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server details

Is Rust U online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Rust U is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 17 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 1 October 2026.

Does Rust U run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 10, and it never went below 10. At its peak it held 96,824 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 2,279 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rust U located?

There is no region from Rust U. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 95.156.198.64:20000.

Which Rust version is Rust U on?

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

Wipe times

What happens on Rust U when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust U?

Wipes on Rust U come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 27 days 8 hours.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust U run?

The procedural map on Rust U measures 4,096 and comes from the game with seed 1512026071. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust U?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust U. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Rust U?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 95.156.198.64:20000. 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?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode The mode is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
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 It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.