Rust Player Count
61,017 playing now

OnlineEU212.121.110.162:28015checked 13m ago

NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server

moddedoxide
Players now 0/ 50 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,955 top 72% · #2505 in EU
Last wipe 19d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – too few wipes seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0022:0007:0017:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

010020030040013:0022:0007:0017:0002:0011:00

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

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k24 Sep28 Sep2 Oct6 Oct10 Oct14 Oct

Top 72% of all ranked servers, top 88% in EU. 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 2 players, last three wipes

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, 10 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 24 Sep, 13:21 UTC19d 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.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
RETRO RUST #1 Х1000|NOLIMIT|LOOT++|KIT WIPE 13.10EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 107 on average 0/ 225
МИНИ-КАРТА 2Х | STORM | FPS+ 10.10EU · groups of 8+ · weekly · 90 on average 88/ 100
404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|РУССКИЙ 10.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 86 on average 51/ 1000
404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|РОССИЯ 08.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 76 on average 13/ 1000
404 RUST 2Х|ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ|EU MAIN 11.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 72 on average 51/ 700
RustSpain.com | EU MainEU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 67 on average 10/ 200

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server use?

No gather rate appears in the name of NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it under Modded, because plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins: Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What map is used on NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

The game generates a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 13371337 for NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

Server tags

Where can NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server: EU Rust servers and Modded Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

How should you interpret the tags on NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

For the game's server browser, NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): Build number: 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use; ^z (Modded): It appears under Modded because plugins or settings modify the game; EU (Europe): You can find it in the Europe 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

What is the player count on NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

0 of 50 slots are filled on NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server right now. The average player count for the past seven days is 0.

Where does NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server sit in the rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server is #15,955 overall, #2,505 in Europe, and in the top 72% of all ranked servers.

Server information

What is the online status and reliability of NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

You can find NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server online at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 days 9 hours ago. It was up 95% of the time over the last 7 full days, 160 of 168 hours. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 24 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Windows is what NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server uses. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

Where can you find NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

With its EU tag, NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server lists itself in Europe. 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 212.121.110.162:28015.

What is the performance like on NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 186, and it never dropped below 152. Up to 50,123 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Memory usage reached up to 3,669 MB. Lag, as players experience it, is caused by low fps and increasing entities.

Wipe information

What happens on NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server when a wipe occurs?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 2 players. 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

When does NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server wipe?

With so few of NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server's wipes on record, its rhythm remains unclear. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next monthly force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server. It has been running its current world for 19 days 23 hours.

Join the server

How can I connect to NightShade's Buddy-Only Rust server?

Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 212.121.110.162:28015. 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?,v2633,EU,gmrust,cs165217,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp50
Max players 50 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2633
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2633.
cs165217
Build Build number: 165217.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use.
^z
Modded It appears under Modded because plugins or settings modify the game.

Region

EU
Europe You can find it in the Europe 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.