Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 41,075 players 11,634 servers 2,828 with someone on 109 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,270habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

testrust

Online 72.0.44.20:28025 checked 11m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,270
top 69%
Last wipe
85d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608005:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

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 17 Sep. 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 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 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

Population

How does testrust rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,270 for player hours, which puts testrust in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is testrust?

The count reads 0 players on testrust, which has 50 slots. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on testrust mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags testrust publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2631 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2631; cs158240 (Build): This server runs game build 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include testrust?

These Rust Population lists include testrust: 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 schedule

What is the wipe schedule on testrust?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of testrust's wipes are on record. 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 85 days 6 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does testrust run?

The map on testrust is procedural, made by the game at size 3,500 from seed 6738. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on testrust?

No gather rate appears in the name of testrust. 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. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does testrust run?

On Windows, testrust runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does testrust run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 54 server fps, with 32 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 64,479, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,316 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is testrust online, and how reliable is it?

You will find testrust online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 7 days 13 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is testrust located?

No region is published by testrust. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 72.0.44.20:28025 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join testrust?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 72.0.44.20:28025. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2631,gmrust,cs158240,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp50
Max players 50 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2631
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2631.
cs158240
Build This server runs game build 158240.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

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.