Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 74,886 players 11,806 servers 3,724 with someone on 106 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 11,589habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Oct 2026

server

Offline 178.214.117.2:28015 checked 7d ago

Measurements

Players now
2/ 100
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
2
peak 2
Rank
#11,589
top 52%
Last wipe
8d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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 Oct22 Oct23 Oct25 Oct26 Oct28 Oct

Top 52% 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 server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, server places at #11,589, within the top 52% of ranked servers.

How busy is server?

server is offline at this count; we last saw it 7 days 7 hours ago. Seven days of counting give an average of 2 players and a peak of 2.

Tags

What do the server tags on server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; v2508 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2508; cs88301 (Build): Game build: 88301; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; hbd6e5de2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust; stok (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust. 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 server?

These Rust Population lists include server: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of server'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. 8 days 3 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does server run?

The map on server is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on server?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: server states none. The group limit goes unstated. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is disabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2508 and build 88301 on Windows for server. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is server online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, server was last seen 7 days 7 hours ago. It was up 2% of the time over the last 7 full days, 4 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 20 October 2026.

Where is server located?

A region is not published by server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 178.214.117.2:28015.

How to join

How do I join server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 178.214.117.2:28015; 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 mp100,ptrak,v2508,hbd6e5de2,stok,gmrust,cs88301

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
v2508
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2508.
cs88301
Build Game build: 88301.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.

Other

hbd6e5de2
Custom tag The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust.
stok
Custom tag The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust.

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.