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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 1% of all ranked servers, and #14 of the quad servers (top 2%). 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 8d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 293, 44 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:40 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 293 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 44 hours after it.
Once a month is all [EA] Softcore 1 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. The world you are playing on was built 26 days 5 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The playrust.com hostname [EA] Softcore 1 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EA] Softcore 1 is listed under Official Rust servers, live now and Rust tutorial servers: live list. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset: softcore; mp350 (Max players): The slot count is 350; ts4 (Group limit): Each team holds 4 at most; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^t (Tutorial on): Start with Facepunch's tutorial here if you are new; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it: that is the tag list [EA] Softcore 1 publishes for the game's server browser. 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.
Live now: 22 players on [EA] Softcore 1, out of 350 slots. Averaged across seven days, 69 players; the peak was 180. Peak hour over 48 hours: 12:00 UTC, at 156 players on average.
Player hours over seven days put [EA] Softcore 1 at #260, in the top 1% of all ranked servers. The server sits at #14 among quad servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [EA] Softcore 1. quad sets the cap: 4 players per group. It runs softcore, An easier Facepunch mode: some loot stays yours. You can raid and fight other players. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 683744944, generated by the game, runs on [EA] Softcore 1. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
Nothing on [EA] Softcore 1 states a region. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 43.239.138.85:28015.
It never went below 27 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 69. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 362,355 entities. The highest memory usage was 80,132 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
[EA] Softcore 1 operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[EA] Softcore 1 is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 hours ago. 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.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 43.239.138.85:28015.
