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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 51% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
from its schedule tag
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 20:09 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 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
With too few of OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors's wipes recorded to confirm the schedule, the tag is used for the prediction. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 28 days 5 hours have passed since this world was generated. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
On Rust Live Stats, OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly it appears on the server list.
gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^w (Weekly): The wipe cycle is weekly; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded: that is the tag list OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 100 slots in total. Peak over the past week: 1. Average: 0 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 07:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors sits at #11,449, inside the top 51% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors states a gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. 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. Vanilla is its own label: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,000, seed 1774623046. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
There is no region from OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 204.191.220.196:28015 is its address.
It never went below 85 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 152. Entity count reached 47,783: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 2,134 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 OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Right now OW Rust Refuge: A good start for new survivors is online. About 3 days 1 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. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 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 204.191.220.196:28015. The server's website: https://www.obsidianworlds.com/rust/.