Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 35,785 players 11,617 servers 2,874 with someone on 59 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,425habitat unknownfirst seen 5 Oct 2026

Rust Server

Online 162.43.28.76:28015 checked 10m ago

moddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
0/ 3
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,425
top 69%
Last wipe
22d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe 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 17 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
15k10k15k20k5 Oct9 Oct17 Oct20 Oct24 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

Population

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #15,425, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Rust Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 3 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp3 (Max players): 3 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs166652 (Build): Game build: 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rust Server?

These Rust Population lists include Rust Server: Modded Rust servers, counted and PvE servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

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 22 days 5 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 50000, generated by the game, is in use on Rust Server. 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. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get pve here, no player combat. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. 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 166652 on Linux for Rust Server. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 157 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 93. The entity count reached 48,440: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 2,741 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 10 days 7 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 5 October 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 162.43.28.76:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 162.43.28.76:28015 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 mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^p,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp3
Max players 3 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs166652
Build Game build: 166652.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Players do not fight each other; the world supplies the danger.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.