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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 44% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
no rhythm it keeps
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 8, 16 hours in.
The current map
Wednesday 14 October 2026, 21:09 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 14 October 2026, 12:32 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 14:51 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 7 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 16 hours after it. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 2.
Wipes on Rust Empires Test come at irregular times, and no next date can be given. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. This world dates from 13 days 11 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Rust Empires Test are Modded Rust servers live now and Rust PvE servers, live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks it appears on the server list.
gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp25 (Max players): 25 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^p (PvE): No player fights another — the danger comes from the world; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded: that is the tag list Rust Empires Test publishes for the game's server browser. 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 Rust Empires Test, out of 25 slots. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 1. Between now and 48 hours back, 22:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, Rust Empires Test sits at #9,869, inside the top 44% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name Rust Empires Test. The default applies: 8 players to a group. pve is the mode, with no fighting other players. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Rust Empires Test runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 133856400. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
Nothing on Rust Empires Test states a region. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 158.69.5.16:28023.
It never went below 121 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 180. Entity count reached 125,793: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 3,532 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust Empires Test operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Rust Empires Test is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 19 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 15 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 158.69.5.16:28023 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
