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Specimen recordcat. no. 6,501habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Empires Crearive

Online 158.69.5.16:28022 checked 52m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 30
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 4
Rank
#6,501
top 29%
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
8d 1h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123418:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 29% 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 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 1h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 1h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 20 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:32 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

Population

How does Rust Empires Crearive rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #6,501 for player hours, which puts Rust Empires Crearive in the top 29% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Empires Crearive?

Rust Empires Crearive holds 0 players at the moment, out of 30 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 4. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 22:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust Empires Crearive mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust Empires Crearive publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp30 (Max players): You can join up to 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^c (Creative): No gathering is needed; this is sandbox building where you build what you like; ^k (Build server): A place to design and practise bases; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs Rust Empires Crearive?

2 other servers we track publish the same rustempires.com hostname as Rust Empires Crearive, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rust Empires Crearive?

Rust Empires Crearive appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted, Build and creative servers and Rust creative servers, counted live. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Creative ^c, Build server ^k, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Rust Empires Crearive?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. Peak came 20 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Empires Crearive?

Rust Empires Crearive 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. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 21 hours ago. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does Rust Empires Crearive run?

Rust Empires Crearive uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 150062785. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. The name on the map is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Empires Crearive?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rust Empires Crearive states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs build & creative, building in a sandbox, with nothing to gather. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Empires Crearive run?

On Windows, Rust Empires Crearive runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rust Empires Crearive run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 60 server fps, with 60 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 7,578, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,507 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rust Empires Crearive online, and how reliable is it?

Rust Empires Crearive is up and running at the moment. About 6 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rust Empires Crearive located?

A region is not published by Rust Empires Crearive. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 158.69.5.16:28022 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Empires Crearive?

Either enter client.connect 158.69.5.16:28022 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. For more, visit its website: https://rustempires.com/.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^c,^k,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp30
Max players You can join up to 30 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^c
Creative No gathering is needed; this is sandbox building where you build what you like.
^k
Build server A place to design and practise bases.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.