Rust Player Count
39,670 playing now

Online157.85.89.204:24358checked 9m ago

Cheese

Players now 0/ 3 0% full
7-day average 1 peak 3
Rank #6,185 top 28%
Last wipe 2d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – too few wipes seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123409:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

010020030040009:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

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 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k12 Oct13 Oct14 Oct

Top 28% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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.

Wipe-day peak 3 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 3, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC2d ago 3+1 queue – running 2

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.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 406 on average 303/ 325
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Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 336 on average 215/ 250
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 333 on average 173/ 200
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average 27/ 250
Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 281 on average 147/ 175

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

What configuration does Cheese use?

The name of Cheese does not state a gather rate. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

What is the map on Cheese?

Cheese runs a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 50000, generated by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

Tags and filters

Where can Cheese be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include Cheese: Best Rust PvE servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.

What is the meaning of the tags on Cheese?

The game's server browser reads these tags from Cheese: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp3 (Max players): Capacity: 3 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Player numbers

How many players does Cheese have?

0 of 3 slots are filled on Cheese right now. With a peak of 3, the average over seven days is 1 players. In the past 48 hours, the peak activity occurred at 18:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

How does Cheese compare in server rankings?

Over the last seven days, Cheese is #6,185 for player hours, placing it in the top 28% of ranked servers.

Server information

How reliable is Cheese, and is it online?

You can find Cheese online at the moment. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 2 days 3 hours ago. For the last 1 full day, it was online for 24 of 24 hours, a 100% uptime. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 12 October 2026.

What is the Rust version for Cheese?

Linux hosts Cheese, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What region does Cheese serve?

There is no region published by Cheese. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. It is located at 157.85.89.204:24358.

Is Cheese lag-free?

The server ran at an average of 236 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 218. Up to 30,227 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 3,313 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, is caused by low fps and increasing entities.

Wipe schedule

What changes on Cheese on wipe day?

The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 3 players. With 1 more waiting in the queue, the latest wipe peaked 0 hours after the wipe.

When does Cheese wipe?

Too few wipes are recorded for Cheese to reveal its pattern. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe applies to all Rust servers. The present world dates from 2 days 5 hours ago.

Connect to the server

What is the process to join Cheese?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp3
Max players Capacity: 3 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol: 2634.
cs167398
Build The game build is 167398.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the game's default networking.
$r?
Region code A region code is not present.

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.