Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 50,509 players 11,676 servers 3,178 with someone on 130 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,335habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RustServer

Online 85.131.249.170:28015 checked 8m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,335
top 69%
Last wipe
16d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123410:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040010:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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
Tue 13 Oct, 08:18 UTC16d 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 RustServer rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,335 for player hours, which puts RustServer in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RustServer?

Of its 50 slots, RustServer is using 0 right now. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on RustServer mean?

What the game's server browser reads from RustServer is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $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 RustServer?

These Rust Population lists include RustServer: 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 RustServer?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on RustServer?

The record holds too few of RustServer'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. The world it runs now dates from 16 days 1 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does RustServer run?

A procedural map of size 3,000 from seed 19686, generated by the game, is in use on RustServer. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on RustServer?

Nothing in RustServer's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does RustServer run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what RustServer uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does RustServer run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 151 server fps, with a low of 66. Up to 49,719 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 2,978 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is RustServer online, and how reliable is it?

RustServer is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 days 10 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is RustServer located?

No region is published by RustServer. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 85.131.249.170:28015.

Getting in

How do I join RustServer?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 85.131.249.170:28015; 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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.