Live coverage · Rust server
Offline Observer Island is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 3d ago.
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 37% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
no rhythm it keeps
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
The current map
Sunday 25 October 2026, 14:52 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 24 October 2026, 16:41 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 22 October 2026, 12:36 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in. In 100% of recent wipes, population held above half the peak right through to the next wipe.
No next wipe can be predicted for Observer Island, which wipes at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world you are playing on was built 4 days 1 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Observer Island are Live Rust community servers. You will find it on the server list under Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set, which Observer Island publishes. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Last seen 3 days 23 hours ago, Observer Island is offline right now. The seven-day average is 1 players, with a peak of 1.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Observer Island is #8,314, placing it in the top 37% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Observer Island states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
No region is published by Observer Island. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 62.118.66.17:28015.
The setup on Observer Island is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
As of now, Observer Island is offline; the last sighting was 3 days 23 hours ago. 13 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 8% uptime. On 19 October 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 62.118.66.17:28015.