Rust Player Count
72,919 playing now

OnlineNA192.154.226.214:28080checked 12m ago

Friends of Rust

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
Players now 0/ 50 0% full
7-day average 0 peak 3
Rank #5,168 top 23% · #893 in NA
Last wipe 13d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 21d 4h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75115:0000:0009:0018:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020015:0000:0009:0018:0003:0012:00

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.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct

Top 23% of all ranked servers, top 48% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 21d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

Wipe-day peak 2 players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

21d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 30 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:07 UTC FW13d 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.

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the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does Friends of Rust use?

The name of Friends of Rust does not state a gather rate. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. pve is the game mode, no player-versus-player fighting. You will find it in the Modded section: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Which map is running on Friends of Rust?

The game generates a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 2098159377 for Friends of Rust. 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 Friends of Rust be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

The Rust Player Count lists that Friends of Rust fits are: Modded Rust servers, Rust PvE servers and North American Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What is the meaning of the tags on Friends of Rust?

These are the tags Friends of Rust publishes for the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp50 (Max players): Capacity: 50 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; cs167398 (Build): It runs on game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe; ^p (PvE): This is PvE: the world is hostile, but players are not; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): It appears under Modded because plugins or settings modify the game; NA (North America): You can find it in the North America section of the server browser. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.

Player numbers

How many players does Friends of Rust have?

0 of 50 slots are filled on Friends of Rust right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.

How does Friends of Rust compare in server rankings?

Friends of Rust ranks #5,168 for player hours over the past seven days, #893 in North America, and is in the top 23% of all ranked servers.

Server information

What is the uptime and reliability of Friends of Rust?

Friends of Rust is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 24 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, a 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on Friends of Rust?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows is what Friends of Rust uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

Where can you find Friends of Rust?

Its NA tag shows Friends of Rust lists itself in North America. 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 192.154.226.214:28080.

Is Friends of Rust lag-free?

The server ran at an average of 102 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 71. Up to 122,789 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Peak memory use was 5,997 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe information

What should you expect on Friends of Rust during a wipe?

The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 2 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 30 hours in.

When does Friends of Rust wipe?

Wipes happen once a month on Friends of Rust, along with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and it affects all Rust servers. The world in play was created 13 days 18 hours ago. The tags show a wipe schedule set to monthly.

Join the server

What steps are needed to join Friends of Rust?

Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 192.154.226.214:28080. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs167398,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp50
Max players Capacity: 50 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.
cs167398
Build It runs on game build 167398.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE This is PvE: the world is hostile, but players are not.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded It appears under Modded because plugins or settings modify the game.

Region

NA
North America You can find it in the North America section of the server browser.

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.