The Empire
Online 85.190.162.224:10400 checked 12m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 24% of all ranked servers, and #351 of the trio servers (top 56%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 38 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 03:43 UTC20d ago | 2 | – | 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.
Quick answers
Population
How does The Empire rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, The Empire places at #5,282, within the top 24% of ranked servers. It places #351 among servers of the trio kind.
How busy is The Empire?
Of its 50 slots, The Empire is using 0 right now. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 3. Look at the last 48 hours and 13:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 0 players.
Tags
What do the server tags on The Empire mean?
What the game's server browser reads from The Empire is this set of tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): The game mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts3 (Group limit): You may team with up to 3 players; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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 The Empire?
On Rust Population, The Empire is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed and Trio Rust servers. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: Trio and it will show up.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Empire?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 2 players. 38 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on The Empire?
Too few wipes are on record for The Empire to show its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 20 days 12 hours ago the current world was made.
Settings
Which map does The Empire run?
The Empire uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,000 with seed 6738. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on The Empire?
Nothing in The Empire's name says how gather works. 3 is the most a group can hold (trio). survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
Server details
Which version of Rust does The Empire run?
On Windows, The Empire runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does The Empire run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 10 server fps, with a low of 10. The entity count reached 94,960: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 2,268 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Is The Empire online, and how reliable is it?
The Empire is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 9 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 3 October 2026.
Where is The Empire located?
No region is published by The Empire. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 85.190.162.224:10400.
Getting in
How do I join The Empire?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 85.190.162.224:10400. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.