Rust Player Count
73,906 playing now

Offline98.228.252.29:28015checked 22d ago

Vanilla Server

Players now 1/ 1 100% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #13,287 top 58%
Last wipe 22d 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
15k10k15k20k21 Sep22 Sep24 Sep25 Sep27 Sep28 Sep

Top 58% 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

What configuration does Vanilla Server use?

No gather rate appears in the name of Vanilla Server. 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.

What map is used on Vanilla Server?

A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on Vanilla Server.

Tags and filters

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

The Rust Player Count lists that Vanilla Server 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.

What is the meaning of the tags on Vanilla Server?

These are the tags Vanilla Server publishes for the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Unmodified survival gameplay; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2633 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2633; cs164530 (Build): The game build is 164530; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Player count

How full is Vanilla Server?

The server Vanilla Server is offline at present, with its last appearance 22 days 18 hours ago.

How does Vanilla Server compare in server rankings?

Vanilla Server is in the top 58% of all ranked servers with a rank of #13,287 for player hours over the past seven days.

Server details

How reliable is Vanilla Server, and is it online?

Currently offline, Vanilla Server was last seen 22 days 18 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 21 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on Vanilla Server?

On Windows, Vanilla Server runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What region does Vanilla Server serve?

No region is published by Vanilla Server. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. It is located at 98.228.252.29:28015.

Wipe schedule

How often does Vanilla Server wipe?

The rhythm of wipes on Vanilla Server cannot be told yet, since too few are on record. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe applies to all Rust servers. The present world dates from 22 days 18 hours ago.

Join the server

What is the process to join Vanilla Server?

To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 98.228.252.29:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmvanilla,cs164530,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Unmodified survival gameplay.
mp1
Max players The server has 1 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit.
v2633
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol: 2633.
cs164530
Build The game build is 164530.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the game's default networking.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.