Rust servers are up.

The verdict, and how we reached it

The line at the top of this page is Rust servers are up, read from the full server list and set against the count we would expect at this hour on a normal day. A dip is not automatically an outage: populations fall away late at night and after a wipe settles. We call it down only when the count drops well below half of what is usual for the hour.

What the numbers are

Two figures sit under the verdict. The first is the number of servers answering our read, 11,809 at the last pass. The second is the players on them, 89,584. Each is refreshed every five minutes, and the page says when the last read was taken. If that read is more than twenty-five minutes old, we tell you rather than carry on as if it were fresh.

The 48-hour charts

The charts show the last two days of counts against the same hours on earlier days. Look for the shape, not a single point: a flat line across a wipe, or a fall at a set hour each evening, is ordinary. A sudden drop on every region at once is what a Steam or Rust outage looks like.

Are the big servers up?

The largest servers are listed with the time each was last seen and its current count. If the biggest are answering and yours is not, the problem is that server, not the game. Its own page will show when it was last seen and what it was doing. An empty browser while this page reads normally points to your side or Steam, not to Rust.

When your browser shows nothing

Restart Steam and Rust first, then clear any region or tag filters. Check whether Steam itself is down: when Steam goes, every server browser empties. On force wipe day servers restart one by one for an hour or so, and your game must be on the new build. For counts by player rather than server, see how many people play Rust.