Winter Rust
Offline 72.71.228.208:28015 checked 5d 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 25 Sep. 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
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- wipe-day peak
- 0players, last three wipes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3 OCT 2026Sat 3 Oct, 09:44 UTC25d 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.
Settings and map
What settings and rules does Winter Rust run?
No gather rate appears in the name Winter Rust. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. Filed under survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are run on it. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned off.
Which map is in use on Winter Rust?
Size 4,250, seed 1: the game generates the procedural map on Winter Rust. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry Winter Rust?
These lists on Rust Server Index take Winter Rust: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. Filed under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What is meant by the tags on Winter Rust?
Filed under these tags, as published by Winter Rust and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp200 (Max players): Player cap: 200; ts8 (Group limit): Game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2634 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It runs build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
What should you expect on Winter Rust when wipe day comes?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 0 players on average. 0 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
How often is Winter Rust wiped, and on what schedule?
Winter Rust's rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of its wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and it wipes every Rust server. 25 days 11 hours is when its current world was made.
Players and ranking
Where does Winter Rust sit in the rankings?
Filed under rankings: #15,348 for Winter Rust on seven-day player hours, top 69% overall.
What does the player count on Winter Rust look like?
At present Winter Rust is offline; its last sighting was 5 days 21 hours ago. Filed under seven-day average: 0 players.
Server facts
What version does Winter Rust use?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781, on Linux, is what Winter Rust runs. Steam keeps your game updated, but the protocol must match for you to join.
Is Winter Rust reachable, and does it stay up?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of Winter Rust was 5 days 21 hours ago. It was up 49 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 29% of the time. It was first recorded by Rust Server Index on 25 September 2026.
What is the location of Winter Rust?
There is no region on record for Winter Rust; it publishes none. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 72.71.228.208:28015.
Joining the server
How can you connect to Winter Rust?
Enter client.connect 72.71.228.208:28015 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp200
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.