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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 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 66% 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 2, 0 hours in.
The current map
Wednesday 14 October 2026, 15:15 UTC
Wipe
Tuesday 13 October 2026, 17:17 UTC
Wipe
Monday 12 October 2026, 20:37 UTC
Wipe
Monday 5 October 2026, 14:21 UTC
Wipe
Sunday 4 October 2026, 15:18 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 4 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 1.
Wipes on Drift Staging come at irregular times, and no next date can be given. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, and no Rust server is spared it. This world dates from 15 days 6 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, Drift Staging is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
These are the tags Drift Staging makes public: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; 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; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Drift Staging is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 40 slots in total. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
Player hours over seven days put Drift Staging at #14,809, in the top 66% of all ranked servers.
The name Drift Staging carries no gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 3,500, seed 50000: that is the procedural map the game generates for Drift Staging. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. For the map name it lists Custom Map.
No region is published by Drift Staging. 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 203.16.163.8:27387.
It never went below 108 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 175. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 24,268 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,701 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Drift Staging runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Drift Staging is online. About 7 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 4 October 2026.
Enter client.connect 203.16.163.8:27387 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.