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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 56% 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 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:33 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Nothing wipes Rusty Skulls 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 12 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, Rusty Skulls is listed under Live Rust community servers. You will find it on the server list under Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
These are the tags Rusty Skulls makes public: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Rusty Skulls, out of 50 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
On player hours for the past seven days, Rusty Skulls sits at #12,445, inside the top 56% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name Rusty Skulls. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Rusty Skulls runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,000, seed 169749001. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region is published by Rusty Skulls. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 147.135.31.203:28015.
It never went below 162 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 200. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 44,206 entities. Up to 2,587 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rusty Skulls operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Rusty Skulls is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 6 days 9 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 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 147.135.31.203:28015. The server's website: https://rustyskulls.com/.