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Specimen recordcat. no. 340us1first seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid

Online 205.178.168.68:28016 checked 12m ago

biweekly wipes moddedoxidepve

Measurements

Players now
22/ 250
= 1 player
9% full
7-day average
51
peak 121
Rank
#340
top 2%
Last wipe
12d ago
biweekly schedule
Next wipe
8d 6h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
025507510013:0022:0007:0017:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608013:0022:0007:0017:0002:0011:00

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 26 Sep. 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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 2% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 6h. The force wipe · high confidence

28 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
180
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 9

Coming wipes

8d 6h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
15d 4h
Thu 12 Nov, 17:39 UTC
36d 6h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
43d 4h
Thu 10 Dec, 17:39 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 15 OctThu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
050100150200+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 186, 5 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 15 Oct, 17:39 UTC12d ago 186 – running 32
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW26d ago 203 halved by day 7 14 days 12
Thu 17 Sep, 17:44 UTC40d ago 151 halved by day 11 14 days 10

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 Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid at #340, within the top 2% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

The count reads 22 players on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid, which has 250 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 51 players and reached a peak of 121. Look at the last 48 hours and 00:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 79 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid mean?

These are the tags Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp250 (Max players): The server has 250 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $rus1 (Region code): You will find us1 as the region code; ^b (Biweekly): A wipe happens once a fortnight; ^r (Roleplay): Roleplay is the focus of this server; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

The rustempires.com hostname that Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid publishes is shared with 2 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted, PvE servers, counted and Rust population: roleplay. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, PvE ^p, Roleplay ^r, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 50+ on average.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

Averaged over recent wipes, 180 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 5 hours in. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 9 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid follows a wipe rhythm of every 4 weeks on Thursday at 17:39 UTC. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. 12 days 19 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of one wipe every two weeks.

Settings

Which map does Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 133856400, generated by the game, is in use on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get roleplay here, rules for roleplay, plus towns and jobs. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. The plugins it runs are Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid run smoothly?

It ran at 57 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 3. Entities peaked at 368,225, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 11,458 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 23 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid located?

Nothing from Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid names a region, but its region code is us1. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 205.178.168.68:28016.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Empires - Roleplay/RP friendly, Cities, PVE, No KOS outsid?

Either enter client.connect 205.178.168.68:28016 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://rustempires.com/.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$rus1,v2635,^b,^r,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp250
Max players The server has 250 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$rus1
Region code You will find us1 as the region code.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly A wipe happens once a fortnight.

Gameplay

^r
Roleplay Roleplay is the focus of this server.
^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: players do not fight each other.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.