Rust Player Count
40,959 playing now

OnlineNA66.51.96.72:28030checked 12m ago

Sanctuary Rust PVE

monthly wipes moddedoxidepve
Players now 3/ 50 6% full
7-day average 1 peak 6
Rank #3,529 top 16% · #625 in NA
Last wipe 12d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 22d 16h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0246803:0012:0021:0007:0016:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608003:0012:0021:0007:0016:0001:00

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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 16% of all ranked servers, top 34% 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 22d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

Usual gap 14 days between real wipes
Wipe-day peak 5 players, last three wipes
Crowd held 0% else halves by day 5

Coming wipes

22d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctThu 17 Sep
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 5 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC FW12d ago 4 – running 0
Thu 17 Sep, 18:31 UTC26d ago 6 halved by day 5 14 days 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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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

What configuration does Sanctuary Rust PVE use?

A gather rate is absent from the name of Sanctuary Rust PVE. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. The server runs pve, other players cannot be fought. The server browser lists it under Modded, because plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What map is used on Sanctuary Rust PVE?

The game generates a procedural map of size 3,650 with seed 214404319 for Sanctuary Rust PVE. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.

Server tags

Who operates Sanctuary Rust PVE?

No other server we track uses the sanctuarypve.com hostname that Sanctuary Rust PVE publishes.

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

These Rust Player Count lists include Sanctuary Rust PVE: 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.

How should you interpret the tags on Sanctuary Rust PVE?

For the game's server browser, Sanctuary Rust PVE publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): No player-versus-player combat: the environment provides the danger; ^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. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Population

What is the player count on Sanctuary Rust PVE?

With 50 slots, Sanctuary Rust PVE has 3 players at the moment. With a peak of 6, the average over seven days is 1 players. The highest average in the last 48 hours was 5 players at 03:00 UTC.

How does Sanctuary Rust PVE compare in server rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, Sanctuary Rust PVE is #3,529 overall, #625 in North America, and in the top 16% of all ranked servers.

About the server

What is the uptime and reliability of Sanctuary Rust PVE?

You can find Sanctuary Rust PVE online at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 1 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 13 September 2026.

What is the Rust version for Sanctuary Rust PVE?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what Sanctuary Rust PVE uses. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What is the location of Sanctuary Rust PVE?

In North America, Sanctuary Rust PVE lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 66.51.96.72:28030.

Is Sanctuary Rust PVE lag-free?

The server ran at an average of 58 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 12. Up to 111,359 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Peak memory use was 4,291 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe days

What changes on Sanctuary Rust PVE on wipe day?

The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 5 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 5 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If not, the crowd went below half by day 5.

How often does Sanctuary Rust PVE wipe?

Monthly force wipes are the sole wipes on Sanctuary Rust PVE. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The present world dates from 12 days 8 hours ago. Its tags declare wipes on a monthly schedule.

Join the server

How can I connect to Sanctuary Rust PVE?

Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 66.51.96.72:28030. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you. You can find its website at https://sanctuaryrust.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE No player-versus-player combat: the environment provides the danger.

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.