Rust Enthusiasts
Online 198.73.57.80:28025 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 4 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
Population
How does Rust Enthusiasts rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Rust Enthusiasts at #15,318, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Rust Enthusiasts?
The count reads 0 players on Rust Enthusiasts, which has 50 slots. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.
Tags
What do the server tags on Rust Enthusiasts mean?
These are the tags Rust Enthusiasts publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): This server runs game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rust Enthusiasts?
Rust Enthusiasts appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Rust Enthusiasts?
Too few wipes are on record for Rust Enthusiasts to show its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. Counted from 25 days 9 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.
Settings
Which map does Rust Enthusiasts run?
A procedural map of size 3,500 from seed 648253, generated by the game, is in use on Rust Enthusiasts. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on Rust Enthusiasts?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rust Enthusiasts states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. The plugins it runs are Carbon. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
Server details
Which version of Rust does Rust Enthusiasts run?
On Windows, Rust Enthusiasts runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Does Rust Enthusiasts run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 98 server fps, with 81 as the lowest. Up to 66,497 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,232 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is Rust Enthusiasts online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, Rust Enthusiasts is online. About 40 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. On 4 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is Rust Enthusiasts located?
Nothing published by Rust Enthusiasts states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 198.73.57.80:28025.
Getting in
How do I join Rust Enthusiasts?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 198.73.57.80:28025. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.