Live coverage · Rust server
Offline Idle Server is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 26d 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 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 8d 19h. 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, 21:33 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. Peak population on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Idle Server takes. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days 2 hours have passed since this world was generated.
On Rust Live Stats, Idle Server is listed under Live Rust community servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
These are the tags Idle Server makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): You need protocol 2634 on your game to get in; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code. 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.
Idle Server is not online at the moment, having last been seen 26 days 1 hours ago.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Idle Server is #16,019, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Idle Server 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. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on Idle Server.
Nothing on Idle Server states a region. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. You can reach it at 72.197.26.248:28015.
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what Idle Server runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Idle Server is currently offline, with its last appearance 26 days 1 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 0% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 20 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 72.197.26.248:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.