Observer Island
Offline 62.118.66.17:28015 checked 2d 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 36% 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
- 1.5 daysbetween real wipes
- on rhythm
- 0%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, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
25 OCT 2026Sun 25 Oct, 14:52 UTC2d ago |
1 | – | running | 1 |
24 OCT 2026Sat 24 Oct, 16:41 UTC3d ago |
1 | – | 0.9 days | 1 |
22 OCT 2026Thu 22 Oct, 12:36 UTC5d ago |
1 | held half | 2.2 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
What settings and rules does Observer Island run?
You will find no gather rate in the name of Observer Island. The default group limit of 8 players applies. Filed under survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are allowed. It is listed under Community in the server browser and is a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
Tags and filters
Where does Observer Island appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is Observer Island: Community Rust servers, indexed. Filed under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
Which tags are attached to Observer Island, and what do they stand for?
Filed under these tags, as published by Observer Island and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp500 (Max players): Player cap: 500; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): Build on file: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty. 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 happens on wipe day at Observer Island?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. 1 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.
How often is Observer Island wiped, and on what schedule?
No next wipe can be predicted for Observer Island: its wipes fall at irregular times. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and it wipes every Rust server. The world it runs now was made 2 days 5 hours.
Population
How is Observer Island ranked compared with the rest?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places Observer Island at #7,973, among the top 36% of ranked servers.
Is Observer Island quiet or crowded?
Filed under offline: Observer Island, last seen 2 days 4 hours ago. Averaged across seven days: 1 players, peaking at 1.
Operator and status
What version does Observer Island use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Windows, is what Observer Island runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What is the uptime and current status of Observer Island?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of Observer Island was 2 days 4 hours ago. It was up 15 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 9% of the time. On 19 October 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Which region is Observer Island in?
There is no region on record for Observer Island; it publishes none. Rust Server Index takes the server's word for its location and does not look up the machine's position. Connection details: 62.118.66.17:28015.
Connecting
What is the way onto Observer Island?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 62.118.66.17:28015 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp500
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.