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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 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
from its schedule tag
Next wipe Saturday 31 October, 10:35 UTC, in 1d 16h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 13 hours in.
The current map
Saturday 3 October 2026, 10:35 UTC
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 13 hours after it.
The prediction for DEV follows its tag, since the record holds too few wipes to confirm the schedule. Expect the next wipe on Saturday 31 October at 10:35 UTC. The world you are playing on was built 26 days 7 hours. Its tags carry a weekly wipe schedule.
The rust.red hostname published by DEV is used by no other tracked server.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists DEV fits: Modded Rust servers live now, Aim training servers, live now and Rust battlefield servers, live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Minigames ^e, Combat training ^d, Battlefield ^i, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly.
These are the tags DEV makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp0 (Max players): 0 slots are available; ts5 (Group limit): Team cap: 5; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^w (Weekly): The wipe cycle is weekly; ^e (Minigames): Minigames here include arenas, Bedwars and parkour; ^d (Combat training): The loot comes to you in this training server for aim and PvP; ^i (Battlefield): High rates and kits make for fast PvP on this battlefield server; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game; modded (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
The count on DEV stands at 0 right now. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put DEV at #15,327, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of DEV states a gather rate. Group size tops out at 5 players. It runs minigames & battle royale, arenas, Bedwars, parkour, battle royale. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. The plugin load is Oxide. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1400132468, generated by the game, runs on DEV. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
No region is published by DEV. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 141.98.157.79:28888.
It never went below 30 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 30. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 63,289 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,205 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what DEV runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Right now DEV is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 12 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 15 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 141.98.157.79:28888 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. The server's website: https://discord.com/invite/KQ45eJABwx.