The count
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'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]
Key points
- 0 of 80 players are on now, 0% full.
- Over the last seven days it averages 1 players, with a peak of 3.
- It ranks #3,972, the top 18% of all ranked servers, and #663 in NA.
- The current map has been up 26d 9h, since Thursday 1 October, 20:32 UTC, on a monthly schedule.
- The next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, in 8d 12h, with the force wipe.
Live coverage
newest first · every post is a reading of this serverEmbedded chart
Players on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Embedded chart
How the server is running
Server performance
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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Rank #3,972 today
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 18% of all ranked servers, top 35% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
Next wipe in 8d 12h
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 12hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 10 hours in.
Wipes
newest firstForce wipe
Force wipe peaks at 3 players
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:53 UTC FW
- Peak
- 3
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 0
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.
Similar servers
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from the figures on this pageWiping
What happens on wipe day at 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 3 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 10 hours after it.
When does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] wipe?
Once a month is all 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] wipes, together with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. This world dates from 26 days 9 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
Tags and filters
Where does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] appear in Rust Live Stats lists and filters?
These are the Rust Live Stats lists 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] fits: Rust servers for beginners, live, Live Rust community servers, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
How should you read the tags on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp80 (Max players): 80 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America, which 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] publishes. 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.
Player counts
What is the current population on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
0 of 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]'s 80 slots are filled right now. Peak over the past week: 3. Average: 1 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 07:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
How does 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] compare with other Rust servers in the rankings?
'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is #663 in North America on the past week's player hours, and #3,972 overall in the top 18% of ranked servers.
Rules and settings
Which settings and rules are in force on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
No gather rate appears in the name 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Community is its browser category. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Which map is in use on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Size 4,250, seed 479521753: that is the procedural map the game generates for 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
About the server
What location is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] in?
Its NA tag places 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] in North America. 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 32.219.237.28:28215.
Is performance on 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] steady?
Server fps averaged 124 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 85. It supported up to 107,015 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 3,807 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
What Rust version is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Is 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] up now, and how steady is its uptime?
At the time of this update, 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome] is live. About 2 days 3 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Connecting
What is the way to connect to 'The Island' Rust - [New Players Welcome]?
Enter client.connect 32.219.237.28:28215 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/rcT5m4VwSM.
