Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,338habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Online 85.131.244.162:28015 checked 12m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 1
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,338
top 69%
Last wipe
21d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123409:0018:0003:0011:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

025507510009:0018:0003:0011:0021:0006:00

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

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
Wed 7 Oct, 16:34 UTC21d 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

Player counts

How does Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,338 for player hours, which puts Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Rust Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 1 slots. 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; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. 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: 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.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Rust Server?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 0 players. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.

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. 21 days 15 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does Rust Server run?

Rust Server uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 428. 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?

Nothing in Rust Server's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

On Linux, Rust Server runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 77 server fps, with 18 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 113,378, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,959 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 days 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is Rust Server located?

No region is published by Rust Server. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 85.131.244.162:28015.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 85.131.244.162:28015; 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 mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp1
Max players The server has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build This server runs game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.