LiveLive coverage · NA · us5
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 23% of all ranked servers, top 46% in NA. 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, 29 hours in.
The current map
Saturday 3 October 2026, 16:40 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:08 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 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 29 hours in.
The record holds too few of WhyNotRust'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. This world dates from 26 days 9 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, WhyNotRust is listed under Live Rust community servers, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp100 (Max players): 100 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $rus5 (Region code): us5 is the region code this server carries; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; NA (North America): The server browser places this server under North America, which WhyNotRust publishes. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
0 of WhyNotRust's 100 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 2. Between now and 48 hours back, 23:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
Seven-day player hours place WhyNotRust at #5,107 overall, in the top 23% of ranked servers and #860 in North America.
The name WhyNotRust carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it under Community in the server browser. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
WhyNotRust runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,000, seed 1361231414. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
With its NA tag WhyNotRust lists itself in North America; its region code is us5. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 91.229.114.120:28015.
It never went below 51 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 94. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 91,862 entities. Up to 2,777 MB of memory was used. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
The setup on WhyNotRust is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
WhyNotRust is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 17 hours ago. 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 91.229.114.120:28015.
