Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,335habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Oct 2026

friends

Offline 31.173.103.225:25001 checked 9d ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,335
top 69%
Last wipe
16d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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. 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 Oct21 Oct23 Oct24 Oct26 Oct27 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

Player counts

How does friends rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,335 for player hours, which puts friends in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is friends?

We have no live count for friends right now. It was last seen 9 days 20 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on friends mean?

What the game's server browser reads from friends is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): The server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include friends?

On Rust Population, friends is filed under these lists: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on friends?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of friends'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. The world it runs now dates from 16 days 4 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does friends run?

friends uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on friends?

Nothing in friends's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does friends run?

On Linux, friends runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Is friends online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, friends was last seen 9 days 20 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 20 October 2026.

Where is friends located?

Nothing published by friends states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 31.173.103.225:25001 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join friends?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 31.173.103.225:25001; 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 mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp40
Max players The server has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
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

^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.