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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,318habitat unknownfirst seen 8 Oct 2026

Friends Rust

Offline 209.126.84.122:28015 checked 8h ago

moddedcarbon

Measurements

Players now
0/ 10
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,318
top 69%
Last wipe
20d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0021:0004:0012:0020:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304013:0021:0004:0012:0020:0004:00

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 8 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct16 Oct21 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

0.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 9 OctThu 8 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 28 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 9 Oct, 00:08 UTC20d ago 5 – running 0
Thu 8 Oct, 03:11 UTC21d ago 4 – 0.9 days 0

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 Friends Rust rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,318 for player hours, which puts Friends Rust in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Friends Rust?

We have no live count for Friends Rust right now. It was last seen 8 hours ago. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on Friends Rust mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Friends Rust is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp10 (Max players): You can join up to 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so 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 Friends Rust?

On Rust Population, Friends Rust is filed under these lists: 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 notes

What does wipe day look like on Friends Rust?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 4 players. Peak came 28 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on Friends Rust?

Too few wipes are on record for Friends 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. Counted from 20 days 12 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Friends Rust run?

The map on Friends Rust is procedural, made by the game at size 2,000 from seed 1323. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Friends Rust?

Nothing in Friends Rust's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. Carbon plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Friends Rust run?

On Linux, Friends Rust runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Friends Rust run smoothly?

It ran at 30 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 18. Up to 18,296 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,224 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Friends Rust online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, Friends Rust was last seen 8 hours ago. About 5 days 22 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 8 October 2026.

Where is Friends Rust located?

Nothing published by Friends Rust states a region. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 209.126.84.122:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Friends Rust?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 209.126.84.122:28015; 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 mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp10
Max players You can join up to 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon The plugin framework Carbon runs on this server.

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.