Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 96,636 players 11,821 servers 3,859 with someone on 527 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 8,247habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

photo

Online 15.204.68.165:27083 checked 7m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 16
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#8,247
top 37%
Last wipe
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75121:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

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 37% 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.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 11:53 UTC27d 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does photo rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #8,247 for player hours, which puts photo in the top 37% of all ranked servers.

How busy is photo?

The count reads 0 players on photo, which has 16 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 10:00 UTC, when an average of 1 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on photo mean?

What the game's server browser reads from photo is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp16 (Max players): You can join up to 16 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include photo?

On Rust Population, photo is filed under these lists: 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.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on photo?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 2 players. Peak came 1 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on photo?

Too few wipes are on record for photo 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. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 8 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does photo run?

The map on photo is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 660491287. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on photo?

Nothing in photo's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, 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. Oxide plugins are in use here. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does photo run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for photo. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does photo run smoothly?

It ran at 179 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 111. Up to 46,725 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,303 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is photo online, and how reliable is it?

You will find photo online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 20 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 72 of 168 hours were online, or 43%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is photo located?

A region is not published by photo. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 15.204.68.165:27083 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join photo?

Either enter client.connect 15.204.68.165:27083 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 mp16,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp16
Max players You can join up to 16 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.