Rust Player Count
52,884 playing now

Online69.164.253.186:25603checked 12m ago

Citadel of Pops

moddedoxide
Players now 0/ 10 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,912 top 72%
Last wipe 11d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – too few wipes seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123423:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608023:0008:0017:0003:0012:0021:00

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 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 72% of all ranked servers. 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 1 players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 13 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 3 Oct, 10:41 UTC11d ago 1 – 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 #3 Х5|MAX 5|LOOT+|CRAFT WIPE 8.10EU · groups of 5 · weekly · 87 on average 11/ 250
SHELBY RUST Х5 MAX5 |LOOT+|SHOP|EVENT|WIPE 13.10EU · groups of 5 · 30 on average 5/ 100
红果十倍/10.13号新开/爆枪/新人入门EA · groups of 6 · weekly · 10 on average 5/ 200
East Coast Vanilla [no decay][heli/boat spawns][noobs welcome]groups of 6 · monthly · 2 on average 3/ 50
MAD RUSTgroups of 5 · weekly · 2 on average 0/ 200
【辐射国度】月清养老服EA · groups of 6 · 2 on average 0/ 150

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does Citadel of Pops use?

The name of Citadel of Pops does not state a gather rate. A maximum of 6 players per group. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded, with plugins or settings that alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

What is the map on Citadel of Pops?

Citadel of Pops runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 172852236, generated by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.

Server tags

Where can Citadel of Pops be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include Citadel of Pops: Modded Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What is the meaning of the tags on Citadel of Pops?

For the game's server browser, Citadel of Pops publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp10 (Max players): The server has 10 slots; ts6 (Group limit): The maximum team size is 6; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $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. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Player numbers

How full is Citadel of Pops?

0 of 10 slots are filled on Citadel of Pops right now. The average player count for the past seven days is 0.

What position does Citadel of Pops hold among Rust servers?

For player hours in the last seven days, Citadel of Pops ranks #15,912 and is in the top 72% of all ranked servers.

Server information

How reliable is Citadel of Pops, and is it online?

Right now, Citadel of Pops is up. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 10 hours ago. It was up 86% of the time over the last 7 full days, 145 of 168 hours. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on Citadel of Pops?

On Linux, Citadel of Pops runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What region does Citadel of Pops serve?

There is no region published by Citadel of Pops. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 69.164.253.186:25603.

How well does Citadel of Pops perform?

The server ran at an average of 57 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 29. Up to 74,773 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 2,515 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe days

What should you expect on Citadel of Pops during a wipe?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 1 players. 13 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest.

How often does Citadel of Pops wipe?

Too few wipes are recorded for Citadel of Pops to reveal its pattern. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe applies to all Rust servers. The world in play was created 11 days 11 hours ago.

Join the server

What is the process to join Citadel of Pops?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 69.164.253.186:25603. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts6,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp10
Max players The server has 10 slots.
ts6
Group limit The maximum team size is 6.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the game's default networking.
$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.

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.