Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 32,618 players 11,652 servers 2,799 with someone on 77 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,349habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RUST Server

Online 216.245.177.29:28045 checked 10m ago

moddedcarbon

Measurements

Players now
0/ 30
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,349
top 69%
Last wipe
75d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

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 17 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% 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

Population

How does RUST Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,349 for player hours, which puts RUST Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RUST Server?

The count reads 0 players on RUST Server, which has 30 slots. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on RUST Server mean?

These are the tags RUST Server publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp30 (Max players): You can join up to 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2632 (Protocol): The protocol is 2632; a different version will not connect; cs160556 (Build): Game build: 160556; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include RUST Server?

These Rust Population lists include RUST Server: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on RUST Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of RUST Server's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 75 days 3 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does RUST Server run?

The map on RUST Server is procedural, made by the game at size 3,500 from seed 648252. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on RUST Server?

Nothing in RUST Server's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does RUST Server run?

Rust network protocol 2632 and build 160556 on Windows is what RUST Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does RUST Server run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 105 server fps, with 84 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 69,724, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,297 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is RUST Server online, and how reliable is it?

RUST Server is up and running at the moment. About 5 days 20 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 13 September 2026.

Where is RUST Server located?

No region is published by RUST Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 216.245.177.29:28045.

Getting in

How do I join RUST Server?

Either enter client.connect 216.245.177.29:28045 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2632,gmrust,cs160556,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp30
Max players You can join up to 30 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2632
Protocol The protocol is 2632; a different version will not connect.
cs160556
Build Game build: 160556.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.
^y
Carbon Carbon provides the plugin framework here.

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.