Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 70,199 players 11,764 servers 3,422 with someone on 215 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,290habitat unknownfirst seen 23 Oct 2026

Scarlet Rust

Online 73.161.104.171:28015 checked 7m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 8
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,290
top 69%
Last wipe
6d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123400:0009:0019:0003:0012:0021:00

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
15k10k15k20k23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 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 Scarlet Rust rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,290 for player hours, which puts Scarlet Rust in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Scarlet Rust?

Of its 8 slots, Scarlet Rust is using 0 right now. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Tags

What do the server tags on Scarlet Rust mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Scarlet Rust is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp8 (Max players): 8 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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 Scarlet Rust?

These Rust Population lists include Scarlet Rust: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Scarlet Rust?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Scarlet 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. 6 days 9 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Scarlet Rust run?

Scarlet Rust uses a map the game generates: procedural.

What are the rules and settings on Scarlet Rust?

Nothing in Scarlet Rust's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Scarlet Rust run?

On Linux, Scarlet Rust runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Scarlet Rust online, and how reliable is it?

Scarlet Rust is up and running at the moment. It was up 99% of the time over the last 5 full days, 119 out of 120 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 23 October 2026.

Where is Scarlet Rust located?

A region is not published by Scarlet Rust. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 73.161.104.171:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Scarlet Rust?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 73.161.104.171:28015; 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 mp8,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp8
Max players 8 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.