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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 17% 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 6d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 23 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:48 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 7 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 23 hours in.
Once a month is all Pop_Rust_Classic wipes, together with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. The world you are playing on was built 28 days 2 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Pop_Rust_Classic fits: Live Rust community servers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp200 (Max players): 200 slots are available; 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server: that is the tag list Pop_Rust_Classic 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 Pop_Rust_Classic's 200 slots are filled right now. Peak over the past week: 5. Average: 1 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 14:00 UTC drew the most players, 4 on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Pop_Rust_Classic is #3,783, placing it in the top 17% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Pop_Rust_Classic states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You find it under Community in the server browser. Oxide plugins are in use. Vanilla is its own label: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Pop_Rust_Classic runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1189436084. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
Nothing on Pop_Rust_Classic states a region. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 87.224.251.94:39998 is its address.
The average server fps was 40 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 28. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 122,695 entities. The highest memory usage was 3,799 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The setup on Pop_Rust_Classic is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Pop_Rust_Classic is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 2 days 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 87.224.251.94:39998. You can find its website at https://t.me/rust_pve.
