Cheese
Online 157.85.89.204:24358 checked 7m 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 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC16d ago | 3+1 queue | – | running | 2 |
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 Cheese rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Cheese at #15,349, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Cheese?
Cheese holds 0 players at the moment, out of 3 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on Cheese mean?
What the game's server browser reads from Cheese is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp3 (Max players): 3 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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 Cheese?
These Rust Population lists include Cheese: 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 schedule
What does wipe day look like on Cheese?
Averaged over recent wipes, 3 players were counted at the busiest point. At the peak of the latest wipe, 0 hours in, 1 more were queued.
What is the wipe schedule on Cheese?
The record holds too few of Cheese's wipes to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 16 days 20 hours ago.
Map and rules
Which map does Cheese run?
A procedural map of size 2,500 from seed 50000, generated by the game, is in use on Cheese. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Cheese?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Cheese states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
Server details
Which version of Rust does Cheese run?
On Linux, Cheese runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does Cheese run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 235 server fps, with 190 as the lowest. Up to 30,232 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,963 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is Cheese online, and how reliable is it?
You will find Cheese online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 2 days 6 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 144 of 168 hours were online, or 86%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 12 October 2026.
Where is Cheese located?
Nothing published by Cheese states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 157.85.89.204:24358 is where it lives.
Getting in
How do I join Cheese?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.