LiveLive coverage · NA
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 3% of all ranked servers, top 5% in NA. 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 7d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 200, 2 hours in, with 31 in the queue.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:02 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 200 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 2 hours in, and 31 more were queued.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop takes. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world you are playing on was built 27 days 10 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Most likely one operator runs them: Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop and 16 other tracked servers publish a rplayrust.com hostname.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop fits: Official Rust servers, live now, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop makes public: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp200 (Max players): 200 slots are available; 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): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America; rustmaps (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
16 of Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop's 200 slots are filled right now. Averaged across seven days, 23 players; the peak was 61. Peak hour over 48 hours: 01:00 UTC, at 30 players on average.
Seven-day player hours place Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop at #620 overall, in the top 3% of ranked servers and #101 in North America.
No gather rate appears in the name Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The in-game Official tab carries it. The plugin load is Oxide. Vanilla is its own label: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
On Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop the map is custom at size 4,000; its file is published and can be downloaded here.
The NA tag on Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop lists it in North America. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 91.229.114.102:28015.
The average server fps was 30 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 30. It supported up to 186,952 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 6,191 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US Low Pop is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 91.229.114.102:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://reddit.com/r/playrust.
