Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 72,496 players 11,811 servers 3,745 with someone on 136 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 10,784habitat unknownfirst seen 23 Oct 2026

Rust

Offline 200.5.55.30:28015 checked 4d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 5
0% full
7-day average
1
peak 1
Rank
#10,784
top 49%
Last wipe
20d 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
15k10k15k20k23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct

Top 49% 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

Player counts

How does Rust rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Rust places at #10,784, within the top 49% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rust?

At this count Rust is offline, with its last sighting 4 days 17 hours ago. We counted an average of 1 players in the past week, with 1 at the busiest.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Rust is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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?

Rust appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 notes

What is the wipe schedule on Rust?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust 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. The world it runs now dates from 20 days 16 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Rust run?

Rust uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Rust?

Nothing in 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. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust run?

On Windows, Rust runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is Rust online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw Rust 4 days 17 hours ago, and it is offline now. It was up 0% of the time over the last 3 full days, 0 out of 72 hours. On 23 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rust located?

No region is published by Rust. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 200.5.55.30:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Rust?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 200.5.55.30:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players 5 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.