Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 89,289 players 11,829 servers 4,008 with someone on 82 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,426habitat unknownfirst seen 18 Oct 2026

rustserver

Online 79.116.34.240:28015 checked 1h ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,426
top 69%
Last wipe
10d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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 18 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k18 Oct20 Oct22 Oct24 Oct26 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 18 Oct, 18:18 UTC10d 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does rustserver rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, rustserver places at #15,426, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is rustserver?

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

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on rustserver mean?

These are the tags rustserver publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 rustserver?

These Rust Population lists include rustserver: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on rustserver?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 0 players. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on rustserver?

The record holds too few of rustserver's wipes to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 10 days ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does rustserver run?

A procedural map of size 3,500 from seed 12345, generated by the game, is in use on rustserver. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on rustserver?

Nothing in rustserver's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does rustserver run?

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

Does rustserver run smoothly?

It ran at 56 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 41. Up to 69,308 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,439 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is rustserver online, and how reliable is it?

rustserver is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 9 days 21 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 18 October 2026.

Where is rustserver located?

A region is not published by rustserver. 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 79.116.34.240:28015.

Getting in

How do I join rustserver?

Either enter client.connect 79.116.34.240:28015 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.