Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 7,001habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |

Online 167.160.93.178:28015 checked 10m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
0/ 150
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 2
Rank
#7,001
top 31%
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
8d 13h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123406:0015:0000:0009:0018:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

025507510006:0015:0000:0009:0018:0003:00

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 31% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 13h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 13h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 4 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 00:10 UTC26d 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 Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | at #7,001, within the top 31% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |?

Of its 150 slots, Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | is using 0 right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 2.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp150 (Max players): The server has 150 slots; ts12 (Group limit): You may team with up to 12 players; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^d (Combat training): The loot is handed to you for aim and PvP practice; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other; ^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 | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |?

These Rust Population lists include Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |: Modded Rust servers, counted, Rust aim training servers, counted live, PvE servers, counted and Rust zombie and infected servers. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Combat training ^d, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 4 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |?

Once a month Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | wipes, and that is with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. Counted from 26 days 4 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Settings

Which map does Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | run?

Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,000 with seed 309235982. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |?

Nothing in Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |'s name says how gather works. A group may hold 12 players at most. This server runs combat training, aim and PvP training, loot supplied. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The plugins it runs are Oxide. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | run smoothly?

It ran at 74 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 23. The entity count reached 113,439: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 3,645 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | online, and how reliable is it?

Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 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 Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP | located?

No region is published by Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 167.160.93.178:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Rust | Crucible | Vanilla+ | Zombies | PVE Focus | Opt-In PVP |?

Either enter client.connect 167.160.93.178:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. For more, visit its website: https://discord.com/invite/JEEPpZVtzS.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^d,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts12,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp150
Max players The server has 150 slots.
ts12
Group limit You may team with up to 12 players.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^d
Combat training The loot is handed to you for aim and PvP practice.
^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other.

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.