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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 47% 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, 1 hours in.
The current map
Friday 2 October 2026, 06:48 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.
Too few wipes are recorded for A Rust Server to establish a pattern. 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 27 days 14 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, A Rust Server is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more it appears on the server list.
gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; 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; ^v (Vanilla): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game: that is the tag list A Rust Server 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.
0 of A Rust Server's 40 slots are filled right now. Peak over the past week: 1. Average: 0 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 08:00 UTC drew the most players, 0 on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, A Rust Server sits at #10,388, inside the top 47% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of A Rust Server states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. Plugins run here: Oxide. By its own label it is vanilla: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 921798635, generated by the game, runs on A Rust Server. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
No region is published by A Rust Server. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 81.17.98.18:10006 is its address.
Server fps averaged 91 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 60. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 51,559 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,057 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what A Rust Server runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
At the time of this update, A Rust Server is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 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 81.17.98.18:10006. You can find its website at https://rtcwaves.com/.