Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,344habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Rust Server

Online 85.131.245.240:28015 checked 8m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,344
top 69%
Last wipe
20d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123416:0001:0010:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040016:0001:0010:0019:0004:0013:00

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
Fri 9 Oct, 08:00 UTC20d 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 Rust Server rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Rust Server at #15,344, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Rust Server?

Rust Server holds 0 players at the moment, out of 50 slots. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

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): The server has 50 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 network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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 Rust Server?

Rust Server appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 schedule

What does wipe day look like on Rust Server?

Averaged over recent wipes, 0 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Rust Server?

Too few wipes are on record for Rust Server to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 20 days 7 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does Rust Server run?

The map on Rust Server is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 50000. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. 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. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Rust Server run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what Rust Server uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Rust Server run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 177 server fps, with a low of 115. Up to 48,410 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,901 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Rust Server online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rust Server is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 11 days 19 hours ago. 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?

Nothing published by Rust Server states a region. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 85.131.245.240:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Rust Server?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 85.131.245.240:28015. 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?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 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 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.