Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 35,785 players 11,617 servers 2,874 with someone on 61 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,425habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Sep 2026

RustServer

Online 162.43.27.37:28015 checked 7m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,425
top 69%
Last wipe
18d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123404:0013:0022:0008:0017:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040004:0013:0022:0008:0017:0002:00

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 20 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 9 Oct, 10:42 UTC18d 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 RustServer rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, RustServer places at #15,425, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is RustServer?

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

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on RustServer mean?

What the game's server browser reads from RustServer is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): 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?

These Rust Population lists include RustServer: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on RustServer?

Averaged over recent wipes, 0 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on RustServer?

Too few wipes are on record for RustServer 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. Counted from 18 days 17 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does RustServer run?

The map on RustServer is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from 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?

Nothing in RustServer's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, 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 RustServer run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what RustServer uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does RustServer run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 181 server fps, with 125 as the lowest. The entity count reached 49,657: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 2,882 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is RustServer online, and how reliable is it?

RustServer is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 10 days 4 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. On 20 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

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 162.43.27.37:28015.

Getting in

How do I join RustServer?

Either enter client.connect 162.43.27.37:28015 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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build 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.