Rust
Offline 178.46.164.19:28015 checked 18h 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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- usual gap
- 2.3 daysbetween real wipes
- on rhythm
- 14%of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 100%of its cycles kept half the crowd
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
15 OCT 2026Thu 15 Oct, 11:29 UTC13d ago |
1 | – | running | 1 |
15 OCT 2026Thu 15 Oct, 02:56 UTC13d ago |
1 | – | 0.4 days | 0 |
14 OCT 2026Wed 14 Oct, 20:31 UTC13d ago |
1 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
11 OCT 2026Sun 11 Oct, 11:03 UTC17d ago |
2 | held half | 3.4 days | 0 |
4 OCT 2026Sun 4 Oct, 10:14 UTC24d ago |
1 | – | 7 days | 1 |
3 OCT 2026Sat 3 Oct, 10:24 UTC25d ago |
2 | – | 1 days | 0 |
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 02:52 UTC27d ago |
0 | – | 2.3 days | 0 |
10 SEP 2026Thu 10 Sep, 20:29 UTC47d ago |
– | – | 20.3 days | 1 |
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.
Rules and settings
On Rust, which rules and settings apply?
No gather rate appears in the name Rust. 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. It is listed under Community in the server browser and is a community server. Plugins in use: Oxide. Its own label is vanilla: filed under vanilla: Facepunch's game, unaltered. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map is in use on Rust?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of Rust has size 3,500 and seed 508605506. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map. Filed under map name: Custom Map.
Tags
Where does Rust appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
These lists on Rust Server Index take Rust: Community Rust servers, indexed and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
How should you read the tags listed for Rust?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: Rust gives gmvanilla (Game mode): Unmodified survival rules; mp100 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 100; ts8 (Group limit): Game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^v (Vanilla): Filed under vanilla: Facepunch's game, unaltered; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod). Current players, queue length and when the world was made appear in the tags, set out at the top of this page.
Wipe dates
What should you expect on Rust when wipe day comes?
Its recent wipes averaged 1 players at peak. 0 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. The crowd held above half the peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
When does Rust wipe?
No next wipe can be predicted for Rust: its wipes fall at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it. 13 days 3 hours is when its current world was made.
Population
Where does Rust sit in the rankings?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places Rust at #15,373, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Is Rust quiet or crowded?
Filed under offline: Rust, last seen 18 hours ago. 0 players is the average over the past seven days.
Server facts
Which Rust build is Rust running?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what you will find on Rust. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is Rust reachable, and does it stay up?
Last seen 18 hours ago, Rust is offline right now. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 0%, 0 hours out of 168. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 13 September 2026.
What is the location of Rust?
Rust gives no region at all. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 178.46.164.19:28015.
Joining the server
What steps lead onto Rust?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.46.164.19:28015. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o
Game
gmvanilla
mp100
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Difficulty
^v
Mods and access
^o
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.