Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 67,749 players 11,777 servers 3,536 with someone on 194 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,318habitat unknownfirst seen 6 Oct 2026

friends smp

Online 23.111.144.130:50002 checked 17m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,318
top 69%
Last wipe
21d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020013:0022:0007:0016:0002:0011:00

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 7 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
15k10k15k20k6 Oct11 Oct15 Oct20 Oct24 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.

0.8 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Wed 7 OctWed 7 Oct
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
Wed 7 Oct, 19:39 UTC21d ago 0 – running 0
Wed 7 Oct, 01:08 UTC22d ago 0 – 0.8 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

Population

How does friends smp rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, friends smp places at #15,318, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is friends smp?

Of its 40 slots, friends smp is using 0 right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on friends smp mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags friends smp publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): You can join up to 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; 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 friends smp?

These Rust Population lists include friends smp: 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 friends smp?

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

What is the wipe schedule on friends smp?

Too few wipes are on record for friends smp to show its rhythm. 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 21 days 17 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does friends smp run?

friends smp uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 6,000 with seed 48761. 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 smp?

Nothing in friends smp's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does friends smp run?

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

Does friends smp run smoothly?

It ran at 91 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 1. The entity count reached 201,830: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 3,638 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is friends smp online, and how reliable is it?

friends smp is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 21 minutes ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 6 October 2026.

Where is friends smp located?

Nothing published by friends smp states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 23.111.144.130:50002.

Getting in

How do I join friends smp?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 23.111.144.130:50002. 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players You can join up to 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
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.