Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,339habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Online 162.43.16.128:28015 checked 8m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,339
top 69%
Last wipe
12d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123423:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040023:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% 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.

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

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 0, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 16 Oct, 11:08 UTC12d ago 0 – 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 Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,339 for player hours, which puts Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Of its 50 slots, Rust Server is using 0 right now. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

These are the tags Rust Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Rust Server?

Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 does wipe day look like on Rust Server?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record holds too few of Rust Server's wipes to show a 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 12 days 11 hours ago.

Settings

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?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rust Server states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux for Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 163 server fps, with 113 as the lowest. The entity count reached 48,410: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 2,912 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Rust Server is up and running at the moment. About 11 days 3 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rust Server located?

A region is not published by Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 162.43.16.128:28015.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 162.43.16.128:28015 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 You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.