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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
too few wipes seen yet
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 13 hours in.
The current map
Saturday 3 October 2026, 10:41 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 13 hours in.
The record holds too few of Citadel of Pops's wipes to reveal its rhythm. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. This world dates from 25 days 22 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, Citadel of Pops is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
These are the tags Citadel of Pops makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp10 (Max players): 10 slots are available; ts6 (Group limit): Team cap: 6; 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; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
0 of Citadel of Pops's 10 slots are filled right now. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put Citadel of Pops at #15,335, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name Citadel of Pops. Group size tops out at 6 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Citadel of Pops runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,500, seed 172852236. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
Nothing on Citadel of Pops states a region. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 69.164.253.186:25603 is its address.
Server fps averaged 58 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 28. It supported up to 75,576 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 2,581 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The setup on Citadel of Pops is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Right now Citadel of Pops is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 20 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.
Enter client.connect 69.164.253.186:25603 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.