Rust Server
Online 118.27.230.120:28015 checked 13m ago
Measurements
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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 23% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 14, 21 hours in, with 4 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:57 UTC FW28d ago | 14+4 queue | – | 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?
Over the past week it ranks #5,019 for player hours, which puts Rust Server in the top 23% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Rust Server?
The count for Rust Server stands at 0 players right now. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 3 at the busiest. Look at the last 48 hours and 13:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 2 players.
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; mp0 (Max players): You can join up to 0 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on Rust Server?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 14 players. At the peak of the latest wipe, 21 hours in, 4 more were queued.
What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?
Rust Server wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 28 days 3 hours ago the current world was made.
Settings
Which map does Rust Server run?
The map on Rust Server is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 1234. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?
No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does Rust Server run smoothly?
It ran at 57 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 51. Up to 50,963 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,355 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. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 3 days 7 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. On 1 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is Rust Server located?
Nothing published by Rust Server states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 118.27.230.120:28015.
Getting in
How do I join Rust Server?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 118.27.230.120:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.