Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,426habitat unknownfirst seen 8 Oct 2026

Rust Server

Offline 219.97.72.190:28015 checked 1d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,426
top 69%
Last wipe
19d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0020:0021:0022:0023:0000:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608019:0020:0021:0022:0023:0000:00

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 Oct20 Oct24 Oct28 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
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 8 Oct, 20:28 UTC19d ago 0 – running 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

Population

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Rust Server places at #15,426, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Rust Server is offline at this count; we last saw it 42 hours ago. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167231 (Build): Game build: 167231; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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?

On Rust Population, Rust Server is filed under these lists: 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 does wipe day look like on Rust Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 0 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Rust Server's wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 19 days 20 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 1234, generated by the game, is in use on Rust Server. 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. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 60 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 59. Entities peaked at 43,846, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 1,681 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Rust Server was last seen 42 hours ago. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 27 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 145 of 168 hours were online, or 86%. On 8 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Rust Server located?

A region is not published by Rust Server. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 219.97.72.190:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 219.97.72.190:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167231
Build Game build: 167231.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.