Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 71,592 players 11,819 servers 3,741 with someone on 132 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 12,996habitat unknownfirst seen 17 Oct 2026

rust

Offline 37.79.47.252:28015 checked 10d ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 2
= 1 player
50% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#12,996
top 60%
Last wipe
10d 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
15k10k15k20k17 Oct18 Oct20 Oct21 Oct23 Oct24 Oct

Top 60% 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 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place rust at #12,996, within the top 60% of all ranked servers.

How busy is rust?

rust is offline at this count; we last saw it 10 days 14 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on rust mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags rust publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp2 (Max players): The server has 2 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded. 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?

rust appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on rust?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of rust'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. 10 days 16 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does rust run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on rust.

What are the rules and settings on rust?

No gather rate appears in the name of rust. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does rust run?

On Windows, rust runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is rust online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, rust was last seen 10 days 14 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 17 October 2026.

Where is rust located?

Nothing published by rust states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 37.79.47.252:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join rust?

Either enter client.connect 37.79.47.252:28015 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 mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp2
Max players The server has 2 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.

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.