Rust Player Count
72,624 playing now

Online85.190.161.104:11200checked 11m ago

253

Players now 0/ 50 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,901 top 72%
Last wipe 11d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – no wipe seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123421:0006:0015:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02.557.51021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0018:00

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

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k3 Oct5 Oct7 Oct10 Oct12 Oct14 Oct

Top 72% 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
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 398 on average 424/ 500
Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 338 on average 355/ 400
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 331 on average 298/ 325
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 320 on average 323/ 350
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 296 on average 47/ 250
Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 271 on average 312/ 450

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

Which rules govern 253?

The name of 253 does not state a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

Which map is running on 253?

The game generates a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 6738 for 253. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

Server tags

Where can 253 be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include 253: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What information do the tags on 253 convey?

The game's server browser reads these tags from 253: gmvanilla (Game mode): Standard vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $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 numbers

How full is 253?

Right now, 0 players are on 253, which has 50 slots. For the past week, the average number of players was 0.

How does 253 compare in server rankings?

253 is in the top 72% of all ranked servers with a rank of #15,901 for player hours over the past seven days.

About the server

What is the online status and reliability of 253?

You can find 253 online at the moment. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 13 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 3 October 2026.

What Rust version is used on 253?

Windows hosts 253, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What is the location of 253?

There is no region published by 253. 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 85.190.161.104:11200.

Is 253 lag-free?

Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 10, and it never dropped below 10. The highest entity count was 65,942, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Peak memory use was 2,018 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe information

What wipe pattern does 253 follow?

With so few of 253'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. The present world dates from 11 days 9 hours ago.

Join the server

What steps are needed to join 253?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 85.190.161.104:11200. 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 mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Standard vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players 50 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it.
$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.