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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 8 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 20% 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 7d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
The current map
Monday 26 October 2026, 10:16 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 22 October 2026, 19:27 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 15 October 2026, 12:27 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 14 October 2026, 19:18 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 8 October 2026, 12:51 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 7 October 2026, 19:33 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. The latest wipe peaked 0 hours after it, with a queue of 1 more. In 33% of recent wipes, population held above half the peak right through to the next wipe. The crowd fell under half by day 4.5 when it did not hold.
Nothing wipes Rust START 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. The world you are playing on was built 2 days 22 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
On Rust Live Stats, Rust START Server is listed under Live Rust community servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp2 (Max players): 2 slots are available; 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 is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month, which Rust START 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 START Server, out of 2 slots. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 2. Peak hour over 48 hours: 14:00 UTC, at 2 players on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Rust START Server is #4,373, placing it in the top 20% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Rust START Server states a gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. Community is its browser category. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Rust START Server runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 685042857. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region is published by Rust START Server. 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 212.22.93.119:28024.
The average server fps was 59 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 13. It supported up to 126,075 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 3,196 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on Rust START Server is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now Rust START Server is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 21 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 7 October 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 212.22.93.119:28024.