Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,351habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Online 81.26.74.29:28135 checked 13m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 16
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,351
top 69%
Last wipe
65d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123405:0009:0014:0019:0000:0004:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020005:0009:0014:0019:0000:0004:00

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 Oct13 Oct21 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

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #15,351, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

The count reads 0 players on Rust Server, which has 16 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp16 (Max players): You can join up to 16 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2632 (Protocol): The protocol is 2632; a different version will not connect; cs161125 (Build): The game build is 161125; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 Rust Server?

These Rust Population lists include Rust Server: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record holds too few of Rust Server's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 65 days 20 hours ago the current world was made.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 2,000 from seed 6738, generated by the game, is in use on Rust Server. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2632 and build 161125 on Windows is what Rust Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

It ran at 120 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 120. The entity count reached 12,586: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 1,213 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Rust Server online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 days 16 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 58 of 168 hours were online, or 35%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

A region is not published by Rust Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 81.26.74.29:28135 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 81.26.74.29:28135; 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 mp16,ptrak,$r?,v2632,gmrust,cs161125,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp16
Max players You can join up to 16 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2632
Protocol The protocol is 2632; a different version will not connect.
cs161125
Build The game build is 161125.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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.