LiveLive coverage · Rust server
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 9 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 19:09 UTC FW
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 3 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 9 hours after it.
Nothing wipes Chicago Rust but the force wipe, once a month. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. This world dates from 27 days 19 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Chicago Rust are Modded Rust servers live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp120 (Max players): The slot count is 120; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded, which Chicago Rust publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Chicago Rust is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 120 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 3. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 03:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, Chicago Rust sits at #5,471, inside the top 25% of ranked servers.
The name Chicago Rust carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin load is Oxide. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Chicago Rust runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,300, seed 637000580. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
No region is published by Chicago Rust. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 104.129.132.53:28259.
The average server fps was 8 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 5. It supported up to 107,011 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 5,444 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Chicago Rust operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Chicago Rust is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 5 days 9 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 104.129.132.53:28259.