'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]
Online NA 32.219.237.28:28215 checked 10m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 35% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 10 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:53 UTC FW26d ago | 3 | – | 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] rank against other Rust servers?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] ranks #3,997 on seven-day player hours, #665 in North America, and sits in the top 18% of all ranked servers.
How busy is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
The count reads 0 players on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome], which has 80 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 1 players and reached a peak of 3. Look at the last 48 hours and 17:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 1 players.
Tags
What do the server tags on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp80 (Max players): 80 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; NA (North America): In the server browser it appears under North America. 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 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Community servers, field-listed, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Averaged over recent wipes, 3 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 10 hours into the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Counted from 26 days 12 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.
Map and rules
Which map does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run?
The map on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is procedural, made by the game at size 4,250 from seed 479521753. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Nothing in 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]'s name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, 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. Vanilla is the label it uses: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
Server details
Which version of Rust does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 124 server fps, with a low of 85. The entity count reached 107,015: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 3,807 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] online, and how reliable is it?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 6 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] located?
By its NA tag, 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] says it is in North America. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 32.219.237.28:28215.
How to join
How do I join 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 32.219.237.28:28215. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. For more, visit its website: https://discord.com/invite/rcT5m4VwSM.