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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 69% 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 22h. 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, 22:34 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 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe A Rust Server takes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 26 days 21 hours have passed since this world was generated.
On Rust Live Stats, A Rust Server is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
These are the tags A Rust Server makes public: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in the vanilla style; mp1 (Max players): 1 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2634 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
0 of A Rust Server's 1 slots are filled right now. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put A Rust Server at #15,323, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
The name A Rust Server carries no gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin load is Oxide. Its self-description is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 2,500 with seed 1337, generated by the game, runs on A Rust Server. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page. Map name, as listed: Custom Map.
No region is published by A Rust Server. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 45.61.173.40:28049 is its address.
It never went below 200 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 237. Entity count reached 4,861: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 2,056 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The setup on A Rust Server is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 with Linux. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
A Rust Server is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 18 days 6 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 45.61.173.40:28049 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.