Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 89,289 players 11,829 servers 4,008 with someone on 137 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,426habitat unknownfirst seen 5 Oct 2026

RustServer

Online 162.43.28.91:28015 checked 55m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 3
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,426
top 69%
Last wipe
22d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123418:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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 6 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
15k10k15k20k6 Oct10 Oct15 Oct19 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

Player counts

How does RustServer rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,426 for player hours, which puts RustServer in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RustServer?

RustServer 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 RustServer mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags RustServer publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp3 (Max players): The server has 3 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

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 22 days 18 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does RustServer run?

RustServer uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 19686. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on RustServer?

Nothing in RustServer's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

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 108 server fps, with 64 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 49,761, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,949 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. About 10 days 22 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. On 5 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is RustServer located?

A region is not published by RustServer. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 162.43.28.91:28015.

Getting in

How do I join RustServer?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 162.43.28.91:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp3
Max players The server has 3 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build This server runs game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.