Rust Player Count
85,447 playing now

Offline2.86.29.28:28015checked 13d ago

Rust Staging Server

Players now 1/ 5 20% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #14,176 top 60%
Last wipe 13d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – no wipe seen yet

Players

No hourly history yet.

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
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct

Top 60% 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 LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 399 on average 529/ 600
Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 340 on average 462/ 450
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 332 on average 237/ 225
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 322 on average 458/ 450
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 298 on average 36/ 250
Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 273 on average 363/ 450

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

Which rules govern Rust Staging Server?

A gather rate is absent from the name of Rust Staging Server. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Which map is running on Rust Staging Server?

A procedural map is what Rust Staging Server runs, generated by the game.

Server tags

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

These Rust Player Count lists include Rust Staging 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 is the meaning of the tags on Rust Staging Server?

These are the tags Rust Staging Server publishes for the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166472 (Build): The game build is 166472; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $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 numbers

How full is Rust Staging Server?

Currently offline, Rust Staging Server was last seen 13 days 4 hours ago.

Where does Rust Staging Server sit in the rankings?

Rust Staging Server is in the top 60% of all ranked servers with a rank of #14,176 for player hours over the past seven days.

Server information

What is the online status and reliability of Rust Staging Server?

Last seen 13 days 4 hours ago, Rust Staging Server is offline right now. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours. 1 October 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What is the Rust version for Rust Staging Server?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166472 on Windows is what Rust Staging Server uses. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What is the location of Rust Staging Server?

No region is published by Rust Staging Server. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. It is located at 2.86.29.28:28015.

Wipe information

What wipe pattern does Rust Staging Server follow?

Too few wipes are recorded for Rust Staging Server to reveal its pattern. 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 13 days 8 hours.

Connect to the server

What is the process to join Rust Staging Server?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 2.86.29.28:28015. 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 mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166472,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp5
Max players 5 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166472
Build The game build is 166472.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$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.