LiveLive coverage · EU · eu2
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 11% of all ranked servers, top 33% in EU. 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 9, 14 hours in.
The current map
Friday 25 September 2026, 01:17 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 9 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 14 hours in.
The record holds too few of Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch's wipes to reveal its rhythm. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. The world you are playing on was built 33 days 5 hours.
No other server we track uses the 96.fi hostname Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch publishes.
On Rust Live Stats, Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch is listed under EU Rust servers, live, Live Rust community servers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more.
gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp96 (Max players): Slots: 96; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs169456 (Build): This server runs game build 169456; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $reu2 (Region code): Region code: eu2; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe: that is the tag list Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch publishes for the game's server browser. 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.
Live now: 1 players on Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch, out of 96 slots. Averaged across seven days, 2 players; the peak was 6. Between now and 48 hours back, 13:00 UTC drew the most players, 4 on average.
Seven-day player hours place Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch at #2,493 overall, in the top 11% of ranked servers and #954 in Europe.
No gather rate appears in the name Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You find it under Community in the server browser. Vanilla is its own label: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 308670667, generated by the game, runs on Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
The EU tag puts Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch in Europe, and eu2 is its region code. 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 89.190.6.44:28015.
Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169456. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Right now Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch is online. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. 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 89.190.6.44:28015. You can find its website at https://rust.96.fi.
