Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,284habitat unknownfirst seen 17 Oct 2026

Rust Server

Online 85.131.244.4:28015 checked 9m ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,284
top 69%
Last wipe
145d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123402:0011:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040002:0011:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

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 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
15k10k15k20k17 Oct20 Oct22 Oct25 Oct27 Oct30 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 Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,284 for player hours, which puts Rust Server in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

The count reads 0 players on Rust Server, which has 50 slots. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

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): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2627 (Protocol): The protocol is 2627; a different version will not connect; cs153660 (Build): The game build is 153660; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded. 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?

Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

The record holds too few of Rust Server'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. Counted from 145 days 13 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 3,000 from seed 50000, generated by the game, is in use on Rust Server. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it 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, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You find it under Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. Oxide plugins are in use here. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2627 and build 153660 on Linux for Rust Server. 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 196 server fps, with a low of 139. Entities peaked at 49,327, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 3,736 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. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 12 days 4 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 17 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

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. You will find it at 85.131.244.4:28015.

Getting in

How do I join Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 85.131.244.4:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2627,gmrust,cs153660,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2627
Protocol The protocol is 2627; a different version will not connect.
cs153660
Build The game build is 153660.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded.

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.