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The Citadel
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 bestTop 62% 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| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageRules and settings
What configuration does The Citadel use?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Citadel. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
What map is used on The Citadel?
A procedural map is what The Citadel runs, generated by the game.
Tags, lists and filters
Where can The Citadel be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that The Citadel fits are: Best Rust PvE servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: 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 The Citadel?
These are the tags The Citadel publishes for the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Standard vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): It runs on game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How many players does The Citadel have?
The Citadel is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 7 days 14 hours ago.
How does The Citadel compare in server rankings?
Over the last seven days, The Citadel is #13,786 for player hours, placing it in the top 62% of ranked servers.
Server information
What is the online status and reliability of The Citadel?
Last seen 7 days 14 hours ago, The Citadel is offline right now. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 0 of 168 hours, which is 0% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 6 October 2026.
What Rust version is used on The Citadel?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Windows is what The Citadel uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What region does The Citadel serve?
A region is not published by The Citadel. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 50.82.0.135:28015.
Wipe information
How often does The Citadel wipe?
The rhythm of wipes on The Citadel cannot be told yet, since too few are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next monthly force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server. It has been running its current world for 7 days 15 hours.
How to join
What is the process to join The Citadel?
To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 50.82.0.135:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs166652,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp1
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
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.