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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 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 7 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 23:58 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. 7 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Nothing wipes True Vanilla but the force wipe, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days 18 hours have passed since this world was generated.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include True Vanilla are 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.
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp10 (Max players): The slot count is 10; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here: that is the tag list True Vanilla publishes for the game's server browser. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on True Vanilla, out of 10 slots. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put True Vanilla at #15,426, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of True Vanilla states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. 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. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
True Vanilla runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1442890237. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region is published by True Vanilla. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 72.49.55.243:28015.
Server fps averaged 79 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 63. Entity count reached 114,423: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 3,693 MB of memory was used. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
True Vanilla operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
True Vanilla is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 15 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 72.49.55.243:28015. You can find its website at http://nky-it.com.