Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 52,540 players 11,716 servers 3,337 with someone on 139 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,701habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

vanilla

Online 151.80.25.50:28010 checked 6m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 150
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#12,701
top 57%
Last wipe
26d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
8d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123401:0010:0019:0004:0013:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

00.511.5201:0010:0019:0004:0013:0022:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 57% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 18h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

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 1, 24 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW26d ago 1 – 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

Player counts

How does vanilla rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #12,701 for player hours, which puts vanilla in the top 57% of all ranked servers.

How busy is vanilla?

vanilla holds 0 players at the moment, out of 150 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 1.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on vanilla mean?

These are the tags vanilla publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp150 (Max players): The server has 150 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): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 vanilla?

vanilla appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on vanilla?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. Peak came 24 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on vanilla?

The force wipe is the only wipe vanilla takes, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 6 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does vanilla run?

The map on vanilla is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 99177. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on vanilla?

Nothing in vanilla's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does vanilla run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what vanilla uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does vanilla run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 1 server fps, with a low of 1. The entity count reached 118,552: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 3,100 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is vanilla online, and how reliable is it?

vanilla is up and running at the moment. About 40 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 144 of 168 hours were online, or 86%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is vanilla located?

Nothing published by vanilla states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 151.80.25.50:28010.

How to join

How do I join vanilla?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 151.80.25.50:28010; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp150
Max players The server has 150 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 RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.