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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 33% 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, 2 hours in.
The current map
Wednesday 7 October 2026, 09:06 UTC
Wipe
Friday 2 October 2026, 04:19 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. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. In 0% of recent wipes, population held above half the peak right through to the next wipe. In the other cases it dropped under half by day 1.
The record holds too few of The Hill Top's wipes to reveal its rhythm. 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 21 days 21 hours.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists The Hill Top fits: Modded Rust servers live now. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
These are the tags The Hill Top makes public: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp40 (Max players): The slot count is 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game. 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 The Hill Top, out of 40 slots. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 2. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 14:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, The Hill Top is #7,296, placing it in the top 33% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name The Hill Top. 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. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 4,250, seed 1: that is the procedural map the game generates for The Hill Top. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
Nothing on The Hill Top states a region. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 81.16.176.157:7056 is its address.
Server fps averaged 80 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 28. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 105,552 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,389 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on The Hill Top is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now The Hill Top is online. About 55 minutes ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 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 81.16.176.157:7056.