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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
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 6 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:51 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 1 players. 6 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep takes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are playing on was built 28 days 10 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep are Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugins run through Carbon: that is the tag list Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep 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 Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep, out of 500 slots. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep sits at #15,270, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.
The name Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins run here: Carbon. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 2128199742, generated by the game, runs on Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
Nothing on Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep states a region. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. 162.39.48.96:28015 is its address.
It never went below 102 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 230. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 102,660 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,677 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Uncle Sams vanilla 50% upkeep is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 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 162.39.48.96:28015. You can find its website at https://unclesamsgaming.com/.