Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 53,558 players 11,668 servers 3,336 with someone on 87 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,396habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

RustServer

Online 162.43.20.217:28015 checked 7m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,396
top 69%
Last wipe
24d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123410:0019:0004:0014:0023:0008:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020010:0019:0004:0014:0023:0008:00

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 4 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
15k10k15k20k4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct18 Oct23 Oct28 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 RustServer rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,396 for player hours, which puts RustServer in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RustServer?

Of its 50 slots, RustServer is using 0 right now. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Tags

What do the server tags on RustServer mean?

These are the tags RustServer publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 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 RustServer?

RustServer 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 is the wipe schedule on RustServer?

The record holds too few of RustServer'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. Counted from 24 days 3 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does RustServer run?

RustServer uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 19686. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RustServer?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustServer. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does RustServer run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux for RustServer. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does RustServer run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 96 server fps, with a low of 55. The entity count reached 49,936: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 2,872 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is RustServer online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RustServer is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 10 days 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 4 October 2026.

Where is RustServer located?

Nothing published by RustServer states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 162.43.20.217:28015.

How to join

How do I join RustServer?

Either enter client.connect 162.43.20.217:28015 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 The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167781
Build This server runs game build 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.