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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 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yet
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 26 hours in.
The current map
Friday 2 October 2026, 00:49 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 2 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 26 hours after it.
Too few wipes are recorded for The Rust Experiment to establish a pattern. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. 27 days 10 hours have passed since this world was generated.
On Rust Live Stats, The Rust Experiment 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.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code, which The Rust Experiment 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.
0 of The Rust Experiment's 50 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 2. Peak hour over 48 hours: 19:00 UTC, at 1 players on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, The Rust Experiment sits at #5,456, inside the top 25% of ranked servers.
The name The Rust Experiment 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. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 3,500, seed 609568408: that is the procedural map the game generates for The Rust Experiment. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
Nothing on The Rust Experiment states a region. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 173.170.243.109:28015.
Server fps averaged 30 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 30. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 66,336 entities. Up to 1,965 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The Rust Experiment operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
The Rust Experiment is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 173.170.243.109:28015.