Rust Player Count
48,799 playing now

Offline78.31.178.38:28015checked 20d ago

Scientist Rust

Players now 1/ 500 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #13,198 top 60%
Last wipe 24d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep22 Sep24 Sep26 Sep28 Sep30 Sep

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
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Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 342 on average 400/ 400
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 336 on average 162/ 200
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average 30/ 250
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

Which rules govern Scientist Rust?

The name of Scientist Rust does not state a gather rate. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. 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. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What map is used on Scientist Rust?

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

Tags and filters

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

These Rust Player Count lists include Scientist Rust: 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.

What information do the tags on Scientist Rust convey?

For the game's server browser, Scientist Rust publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp500 (Max players): The server has 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2633 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2633; cs164530 (Build): It runs on game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.

Player count

What is the player count on Scientist Rust?

Scientist Rust is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 20 days 10 hours ago.

What position does Scientist Rust hold among Rust servers?

Over the last seven days, Scientist Rust is #13,198 for player hours, placing it in the top 60% of ranked servers.

Server details

What is the online status and reliability of Scientist Rust?

Last seen 20 days 10 hours ago, Scientist Rust 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 19 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on Scientist Rust?

Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Windows is what Scientist Rust uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What is the location of Scientist Rust?

There is no region published by Scientist Rust. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. You can reach it at 78.31.178.38:28015.

Wipe information

How often does Scientist Rust wipe?

Too few wipes are recorded for Scientist Rust 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 24 days 6 hours ago.

Connect to the server

How can I connect to Scientist Rust?

Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 78.31.178.38:28015. 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 mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp500
Max players The server has 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default team cap: 8 players.
v2633
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol: 2633.
cs164530
Build It runs on game build 164530.
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.