Rust Player Count
76,128 playing now

Online162.43.21.201:28015checked 12m ago

Rust Server

Players now 0/ 10 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,892 top 72%
Last wipe 12d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – no rhythm it keeps

Players

AveragePeak
0123421:0006:0015:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0018:00

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

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 72% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Usual gap 6.6 days between real wipes
On rhythm 0% of its recent wipes
Wipe-day peak 1 players, last three wipes
Crowd held 0% else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctSun 20 SepSat 19 Sep
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 14:19 UTC12d ago 0 – running 0
Sun 20 Sep, 06:48 UTC24d ago 1 halved by day 1 12.3 days 0
Sat 19 Sep, 07:49 UTC25d ago 1 – 1 days 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.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 398 on average 437/ 500
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Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 331 on average 296/ 325
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 320 on average 326/ 350
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 297 on average 46/ 250
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

Which rules govern Rust Server?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rust Server. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What map is used on Rust Server?

Rust Server runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 595052069, 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, lists and filters

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

These Rust Player Count lists include Rust Server: 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 2 weeks.

What information do the tags on Rust Server convey?

For the game's server browser, Rust Server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp10 (Max players): Capacity: 10 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166586 (Build): The game build is 166586; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.

Population

What is the player count on Rust Server?

Right now, 0 players are on Rust Server, which has 10 slots. The average player count for the past seven days is 0.

How does Rust Server compare in server rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, Rust Server ranks #15,892 and is in the top 72% of all ranked servers.

Server details

How reliable is Rust Server, and is it online?

Rust Server is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 days 3 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 19 September 2026.

What is the Rust version for Rust Server?

Linux hosts Rust Server, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

Where can you find Rust Server?

A region is not published by Rust Server. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 162.43.21.201:28015.

What is the performance like on Rust Server?

The server ran at an average of 127 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 69. The highest entity count was 69,907, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. At its highest, it used 4,203 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe information

What should you expect on Rust Server during a wipe?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If not, the crowd went below half by day 1.

When does Rust Server wipe?

Wipes on Rust Server come at irregular times, leaving no next wipe to forecast. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC it comes next. It has been running its current world for 12 days 5 hours.

How to join

What is the process to join Rust Server?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 162.43.21.201:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp10
Max players Capacity: 10 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default team cap: 8 players.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166586
Build The game build is 166586.
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.