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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 7 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 36% 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 11h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
The current map
Wednesday 7 October 2026, 20:09 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 1 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
Once a month is all Rust START Server wipes, together with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 21 days 10 hours have passed since this world was generated. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
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.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2634; cs167058 (Build): The game build is 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe, which Rust START Server publishes. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Rust START Server is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 10 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 2.
On player hours for the past seven days, Rust START Server sits at #7,981, inside the top 36% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Rust START Server states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 2,000, seed 166494: that is the procedural map the game generates for Rust START Server. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
No region is published by Rust START Server. 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 212.22.93.159:28024.
Server fps averaged 63 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 18. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 17,929 entities. Memory use peaked at 1,827 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on Rust START Server is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 with Windows. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Rust START Server is online. About 8 days 22 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 7 October 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 212.22.93.159:28024 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.