Rust Player Count
75,365 playing now

Online176.61.162.189:28025checked 19m ago

Release

Players now 0/ 500 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,098 top 70%
Last wipe 3h ago no schedule published
Next wipe – no wipe seen yet

Players

AveragePeakWipe
0123410:0011:0012:0013:00Wiped Thu 22 Oct, 10:47 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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

Rank

daily · 1 is best
No rank history yet.

Top 70% of all ranked servers. 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.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 MediumEU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 438 on average 514/ 575
Rusty Moose |US Biweekly|NA · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 425 on average 61/ 200
Rusty Moose |EU Biweekly|EU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 309 on average 80/ 200
Rustafied.com - EU Medium - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · biweekly · 292 on average 288/ 350
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 287 on average 474/ 500
Rustoria.co - US Medium PremiumNA · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 260 on average 35/ 200

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does Release use?

A gather rate is absent from the name of Release. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

What is the map on Release?

A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on Release.

Tags and filters

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

These Rust Player Count lists include Release: 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 24 hours.

What is the meaning of the tags on Release?

For the game's server browser, Release publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp500 (Max players): The server has 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2635 to connect; cs168840 (Build): Build number: 168840; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $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.

Player count

What is the player count on Release?

Right now, 0 players are on Release, which has 500 slots. For the past week, the average number of players was 0.

What position does Release hold among Rust servers?

Release is in the top 70% of all ranked servers with a rank of #15,098 for player hours over the past seven days.

About the server

How reliable is Release, and is it online?

Right now, Release is up. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 22 October 2026.

What is the Rust version for Release?

Windows hosts Release, which runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168840. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What region does Release serve?

A region is not published by Release. 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 176.61.162.189:28025.

Wipe days

What wipe pattern does Release follow?

Too few wipes are recorded for Release 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 3 hours ago.

How to join

How can I connect to Release?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 176.61.162.189:28025. 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 mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168840,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp500
Max players The server has 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2635
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2635 to connect.
cs168840
Build Build number: 168840.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it.
$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.