Sober Rust
Online 188.42.131.180:28015 checked 9m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does Sober Rust rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Sober Rust at #15,339, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Sober Rust?
The count reads 0 players on Sober Rust, which has 50 slots. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on Sober Rust mean?
These are the tags Sober Rust publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): The game mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Sober Rust?
On Rust Population, Sober Rust is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Sober Rust?
The record holds too few of Sober Rust's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 16 days 17 hours ago the current world was made.
Settings
Which map does Sober Rust run?
A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 612351, generated by the game, is in use on Sober Rust. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on Sober Rust?
Nothing in Sober Rust's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Sober Rust run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows for Sober Rust. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does Sober Rust run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 60 server fps, with a low of 59. The entity count reached 45,180: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 3,478 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is Sober Rust online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, Sober Rust is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 16 days 15 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 12 October 2026.
Where is Sober Rust located?
Nothing published by Sober Rust states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 188.42.131.180:28015 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join Sober Rust?
Either enter client.connect 188.42.131.180:28015 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://low.ms/game-servers/rust-server-hosting.