Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,310habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Online 104.143.3.247:28259 checked 11m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 120
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,310
top 69%
Last wipe
10d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

0246819:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

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

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

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.

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 19 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.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 19 Oct, 06:48 UTC10d ago 0 – running 0
Thu 17 Sep, 06:58 UTC42d ago 0 – 32 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #15,310, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

The count reads 0 players on Rust Server, which has 120 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp120 (Max players): 120 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rust Server?

Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Rust Server?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 0 players. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to show its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. Counted from 10 days 11 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

Rust Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,250 with seed 1897720256. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

Nothing in Rust Server's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what Rust Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 5 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 5. Up to 98,681 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,753 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is online. About 10 days 9 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

Nothing published by Rust Server states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 104.143.3.247:28259.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 104.143.3.247:28259 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp120,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp120
Max players 120 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.