Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,341habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Online 85.131.243.88:28015 checked 10m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 20
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,341
top 69%
Last wipe
54d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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?

By player hours over the last seven days, Rust Server places at #15,341, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Of its 20 slots, Rust Server is using 0 right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Tags

What do the server tags on Rust Server mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Rust Server is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp20 (Max players): You can join up to 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2633 (Protocol): The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect; cs162929 (Build): This server runs game build 162929; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. 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 Rust Server?

On Rust Population, Rust Server is filed under these lists: Modded Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Rust Server'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. Counted from 54 days 14 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 from seed 1051787232, 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?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Rust Server states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. Oxide plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 162929 on Linux is what Rust Server uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 130 server fps, with a low of 76. Entities peaked at 97,878, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,711 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is online. About 9 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 85.131.243.88:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Either enter client.connect 85.131.243.88:28015 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 mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs162929,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp20
Max players You can join up to 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2633
Protocol The protocol is 2633; a different version will not connect.
cs162929
Build This server runs game build 162929.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.