LiveLive coverage · EU
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 4% of all ranked servers, top 14% in EU. 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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 64, 23 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:02 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 64 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 23 hours after it.
Nothing wipes Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore but the force wipe, once a month. 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 4 hours.
The rplayrust.com hostname Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore publishes is shared with 16 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore are EU Rust servers, live and Official Rust servers, live now. You will find it on the server list under Region: Europe; Type: Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Hardcore ^h and Oxide ^o; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore makes public: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset: hardcore; mp200 (Max players): The slot count is 200; ts0 (Group limit): This server switches teams off; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and a harsher survival: this is Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); EU (Europe): Europe is the browser listing for this server; rustmaps (Custom tag): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
13 of Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore's 200 slots are filled right now. Peak over the past week: 23. Average: 9 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 15:00 UTC, averaging 20 players.
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore is #420 in Europe on the past week's player hours, and #983 overall in the top 4% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore states a gather rate. It lists no limit on group size. hardcore applies here, The hardest mode Facepunch makes. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. The in-game Official tab carries it. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Custom map, size 3,600, on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore. The file is published, so this page offers the download.
Its EU tag places Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore in Europe. 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 194.69.160.82:28015.
It never went below 21 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 30. Entity count reached 105,717: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 4,005 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Right now Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - EU Hardcore is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 12 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 194.69.160.82:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. The server's website: https://redditplayrust.com/login.
