Rusty Skulls
Online 147.135.31.203:28015 checked 7m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 56% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 0players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 2hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 17:33 UTC FW27d ago |
0 | – | running | 0 |
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
On Rusty Skulls, which rules and settings apply?
The name of Rusty Skulls does not state a gather rate. 8 players per group is the default limit. Filed under survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. Filed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
What is the map on Rusty Skulls?
Rusty Skulls runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 169749001, generated by the game. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry Rusty Skulls?
These lists on Rust Server Index take Rusty Skulls: Community Rust servers, indexed. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Which tags are attached to Rusty Skulls, and what do they stand for?
These are the tags Rusty Skulls publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: gmvanilla (Game mode): Unmodified survival rules; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty. See also the top of this page, where the tags carry the current players, the queue and the time the world was made.
Wipes and resets
What should you expect on Rusty Skulls when wipe day comes?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 0 players. 0 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
How often is Rusty Skulls wiped, and on what schedule?
With the force wipe, Rusty Skulls wipes once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its present world dates from 27 days 23 hours.
Population
What position does Rusty Skulls hold among Rust servers?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places Rusty Skulls at #12,417, among the top 56% of ranked servers.
How many players are on Rusty Skulls at the moment?
The live count for Rusty Skulls stands at 0 players, out of 50 slots. Averaged across seven days: 0 players, peaking at 1.
Server details
What Rust version is Rusty Skulls on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on Rusty Skulls. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is Rusty Skulls reachable, and does it stay up?
The server is live at this moment: Rusty Skulls. About 6 days 20 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. Of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were up, 99% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 13 September 2026.
How well does Rusty Skulls perform?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 200, with a low of 162. The entity count reached 44,193, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use reached as much as 2,587 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
What is the location of Rusty Skulls?
No region is published by Rusty Skulls. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 147.135.31.203:28015.
How to join
How can you connect to Rusty Skulls?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 147.135.31.203:28015. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you. https://rustyskulls.com/ is where its website lives.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.