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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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 26% 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 8d 15h. 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, 22:11 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. Peak population on the latest wipe came 6 hours after it.
Nothing wipes Rust Dedicated Server 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 26 days 5 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Rust Dedicated Server 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): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp500 (Max players): Slots: 500; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded, which Rust Dedicated Server 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.
Live now: 0 players on Rust Dedicated Server, out of 500 slots. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 6. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 05:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.
Player hours over seven days put Rust Dedicated Server at #5,684, in the top 26% of all ranked servers.
The name Rust Dedicated Server carries no gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
No region is published by Rust Dedicated Server. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. You can reach it at 162.43.50.99:29015.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Rust Dedicated Server runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Right now Rust Dedicated Server is online. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% 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 162.43.50.99:29015.