LiveLive coverage · OC
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 2% of all ranked servers, top 6% in OC, and #27 of the quad servers (top 3%). 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 129, 40 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:04 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 129 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 40 hours in.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore takes. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 28 days have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Most likely one operator runs them: Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore and 16 other tracked servers publish a rplayrust.com hostname.
On Rust Live Stats, Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore is listed under Live Oceanic Rust servers and Official Rust servers, live now. You will find it on the server list under Region: Oceania; Type: Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore makes public: 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; mp150 (Max players): Slots: 150; ts4 (Group limit): Each team holds 4 at most; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); OC (Oceania): In the server browser it sits under Oceania; rustmaps (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
9 of Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore's 150 slots are filled right now. Peak over the past week: 79. Average: 33 players. Peak hour over 48 hours: 09:00 UTC, at 54 players on average.
Oceania places Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore at #12; overall it is #514, inside the top 2% of ranked servers, by seven-day player hours. The server sits at #27 among quad servers.
The name Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore carries no gather rate. The limit is 4 players to a group (quad). It runs softcore, Part of your loot is kept in this easier Facepunch mode. You can raid and fight other players. You find it in the Official tab in game. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
On Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore the map is custom at size 4,000; its file is published and can be downloaded here.
By its own OC tag, Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore sits in Oceania. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. Connect to 51.161.198.57:28015.
Server fps averaged 30 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 22. Entity count reached 275,265: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 6,776 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 22 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. 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 51.161.198.57:28015. You can find its website at https://redditplayrust.com/login.
