Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 89,289 players 11,829 servers 4,008 with someone on 28 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,373habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RustServer

Online 162.43.85.51:28015 checked 2h ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,373
top 69%
Last wipe
11d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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.

1
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 1, 3 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 17 Oct, 12:54 UTC11d ago 1 – 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

Player counts

How does RustServer rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place RustServer at #15,373, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RustServer?

Of its 50 slots, RustServer is using 0 right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and 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; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 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): 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 RustServer?

RustServer 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 RustServer?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 1 players. 3 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

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 11 days 6 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does RustServer run?

The map on RustServer is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 19686. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RustServer?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: RustServer states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does RustServer run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux for RustServer. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does RustServer run smoothly?

It ran at 116 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 74. Up to 49,655 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,849 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is RustServer online, and how reliable is it?

You will find RustServer online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 days 19 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is RustServer located?

No region is published by RustServer. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 162.43.85.51:28015.

Getting in

How do I join RustServer?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 162.43.85.51:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

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 This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
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.