Winter Rust
Offline 72.71.228.208:28015 checked 6d 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 25 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:44 UTC25d ago | 0 | – | 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 Winter Rust rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Winter Rust at #15,351, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is Winter Rust?
At this count Winter Rust is offline, with its last sighting 6 days 5 hours ago. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on Winter Rust mean?
These are the tags Winter Rust publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp200 (Max players): You can join up to 200 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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 Winter Rust?
These Rust Population lists include Winter Rust: 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.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on Winter Rust?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Winter Rust?
Too few wipes are on record for Winter Rust 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 25 days 19 hours ago.
Settings
Which map does Winter Rust run?
A procedural map of size 4,250 from seed 1, generated by the game, is in use on Winter Rust. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Winter Rust?
No gather rate appears in the name of Winter Rust. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings alter the game. You will find Oxide running as plugins. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is not running.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Winter Rust run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux for Winter Rust. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Is Winter Rust online, and how reliable is it?
We last saw Winter Rust 6 days 5 hours ago, and it is offline now. It was up 15% of the time over the last 7 full days, 25 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 25 September 2026.
Where is Winter Rust located?
A region is not published by Winter Rust. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 72.71.228.208:28015.
Getting in
How do I join Winter Rust?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 72.71.228.208:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.