Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 63,000 players 11,748 servers 3,404 with someone on 200 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,323habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

RUSTY

Online 172.240.12.141:25702 checked 15m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 500
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,323
top 69%
Last wipe
24d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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 5 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 Oct10 Oct15 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 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.

2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 23:59 UTC24d ago 2 – 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 RUSTY rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,323 for player hours, which puts RUSTY in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RUSTY?

The count reads 0 players on RUSTY, which has 500 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Tags

What do the server tags on RUSTY mean?

What the game's server browser reads from RUSTY is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): You can join up to 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded. 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 RUSTY?

RUSTY appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on RUSTY?

Averaged over recent wipes, 2 players were counted at the busiest point. 1 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on RUSTY?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of RUSTY's wipes are on record. 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 24 days 11 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does RUSTY run?

RUSTY uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,000 with seed 618226138. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on RUSTY?

No gather rate appears in the name of RUSTY. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. 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 RUSTY run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what RUSTY uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does RUSTY run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 234 server fps, with 146 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 45,865, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 1,904 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is RUSTY online, and how reliable is it?

RUSTY is up and running at the moment. About 22 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 4 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is RUSTY located?

Nothing published by RUSTY 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 172.240.12.141:25702.

How to join

How do I join RUSTY?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 172.240.12.141:25702; 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 mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp500
Max players You can join up to 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so 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.