Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 59,874 players 11,727 servers 3,366 with someone on 176 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,323habitat unknownfirst seen 18 Oct 2026

Rust Server

Online 162.43.14.212:28015 checked 11m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,323
top 69%
Last wipe
11d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0014:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020012:0021:0006:0014:0000:0009:00

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 18 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k18 Oct20 Oct22 Oct25 Oct27 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,323 for player hours, which puts Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Rust Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 50 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Rust Server?

These Rust Population lists include Rust Server: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to show its 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 11 days 3 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

The map on Rust Server is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 50000. 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. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what Rust Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 96 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 64. Entities peaked at 48,554, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,051 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Rust Server online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 days 1 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 18 October 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

Nothing published by Rust Server states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 162.43.14.212:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 162.43.14.212:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players 50 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.