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Rust player count

Counted at , 12m ago. A new count every five minutes.

Playing right now
84,587
-9.1% vs this hour yesterday · on 11,587 servers · 48 queued
24h peak
103,849
19:00 UTC
24h low
38,574
05:00 UTC
Busiest hour
19:00
quietest 05:00 UTC
Record day
145,095
3 Oct
With players
4,151
of 11,587 servers

Players over time

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Hourly average, UTC.

The number above is every player on a public Rust server, refreshed every five minutes. The charts below show the last day and the last months. Then the same players split by game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and wipe day. A small share of servers holds most of the players; the rest sit quiet between wipes. Last update: 7 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC. Peak today: 103,849. Record: 145,095.

Who plays what

Each square is one per cent of the 84,587 players. Every server is counted once per breakdown, so each fills all hundred.

Official or not

Rust's in-game Official tab
  • Officialthe in-game Official tab 21.6% 18,237 -18%
  • Non-officialcommunity and modded servers 78.4% 66,350 -6%

Modded or not

rates, rules and plugins
  • Moddedrates, kits or rules changed 60.5% 51,207 -8%
  • Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded 14.8% 12,503 -9%
  • Unmoddedno plugin framework at all 24.7% 20,877 -12%

Oxide on 7,109 servers, Carbon on 1,853; 2,609 call themselves vanilla.

Game mode

what each server is for
  • Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid 77.5% 65,518 -10%
  • PvEno fighting other players 7.2% 6,079 -6%
  • Minigames & battle royalearenas, Bedwars, parkour, battle royale 3.9% 3,328 -3%
  • Combat trainingaim and PvP practice, loot handed out 3.3% 2,833 +6%
  • Battlefieldfast PvP with kits and high rates 2.8% 2,339 -11%
  • SoftcoreFacepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot 2.1% 1,755 -5%
  • Build & creativesandbox building, no gathering 1.5% 1,258 -1%
  • Roleplaytowns, jobs and roleplay rules 1.3% 1,088 -3%
  • HardcoreFacepunch's hardest mode 0.3% 281 -2%
  • Primitiveno guns: bows, spears and melee 0.1% 108 +17%

Premium-only servers (292) count in their mode.

Region

where the server says it is
  • Europe 49.6% 41,923
  • North America 16.3% 13,813
  • Asia 3.1% 2,584
  • South America 1.9% 1,645
  • Oceania 0.6% 478
  • Africa 0.1% 55
  • Not published 28.5% 24,089

Gather rate

read from the server's name
  • 1x 1.2% 995
  • 1.5x 0.8% 663
  • 2x 24.5% 20,764
  • 3x 8.7% 7,394
  • 5x 4.4% 3,696
  • 10x 3.1% 2,592
  • Other, under 100x 1.0% 816
  • 100x and more 1.9% 1,591
  • No rate in the name 54.5% 46,076

Group size

the team limit published
  • Solo 2.8% 2,381
  • Duo 6.5% 5,523
  • Trio 8.3% 7,060
  • Quad 6.7% 5,686
  • 5 to 7 6.4% 5,388
  • 8, the game's default 24.0% 20,278
  • More than 8 37.1% 31,420
  • Not published 8.1% 6,851

Last wipe

how fresh the map is
  • In the last 24 hours 22.8% 19,257
  • 1 to 3 days ago 22.4% 18,910
  • 3 to 7 days ago 54.5% 46,109
  • 1 to 2 weeks ago 0.1% 100
  • 2 to 4 weeks ago 0.1% 109
  • Over 4 weeks ago 0.1% 95
  • Unknown <0.1% 7

Wipe schedule

what servers publish
  • Weekly 29.5% 24,953
  • Every two weeks 12.5% 10,605
  • Monthly 43.5% 36,765
  • Not published 14.5% 12,264

Server size

players on each server now
  • 200 or more 35.6% 30,126
  • 100 to 199 20.0% 16,946
  • 50 to 99 16.7% 14,144
  • 10 to 49 18.3% 15,452
  • 1 to 9 9.4% 7,919
  • Empty 0.0% 0

Half of all players are on 160 of 11,587 servers.

The 10 busiest servers
10%
The 100 busiest servers
40%

Busiest servers

All servers
  1. 1
    EU | Helli's Aimtrain | Facechecks/1v1/Speargun/HellisEU · 168.100.161.166:27017
    1777 / 2050
  2. 2
    RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars | AimTrain | Creative | Arena | FFAEU · 64.40.9.156:28015
    936 / 1500
  3. 3
    Magic Rust #18 — Vanilla 2x | Baйп 07.10– · 80.242.59.21:10010
    888 / 1040
  4. 4
    Atlas - EU 2X Monthly | Vanilla+ | No BP WipesEU · 195.60.166.166:28015
    808 / 950
  5. 5
    WARBANDITS.GG EU 3X |Solo/Duo/Trio|LootX3| JUST WIPEDEU · 194.54.88.74:28015
    678 / 775
  6. 6
    MIRAGE RUST | WEDNESDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 07.10EU · 80.242.59.225:35002
    659 / 1350
  7. 7
    WARBANDITS.GG 3X |Solo/Duo/Trio|LootX3| JUST FULLWIPEDNA · 168.100.162.200:28015
    617 / 600
  8. 8
    Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP WipesEU · 168.100.161.198:28015
    615 / 700
  9. 9
    Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · 205.178.168.205:28015
    590 / 650
  10. 10
    Survivors.gg #7 [ 2x Vanilla ] WIPED 07.10– · 194.54.88.102:28025
    536 / 600

Questions

4 answers about this page and the numbers on it.

How many people are playing Rust right now?

That is the 84,587 figure at the top of this page. It counts players on public Rust servers only and refreshes every five minutes. The total moves through the day, with the busiest hour usually more than double the quietest.

Why does this differ from Steam's player count?

Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including menus, loading screens and servers that do not list themselves publicly. This page counts players on public servers and reports them every five minutes. That is also why the total can be split by server type and region.

When is Rust busiest?

The European evening is the peak, and the busiest hour averaged over the last week is shown on the chart. Evening in Australia is late morning in the UK, and evening on the US east coast is after midnight in the UK. Servers in other regions follow their own local evenings.

Do modded servers hold more players than vanilla?

Modded servers hold more players in total, mainly because there are far more of them. The split on this page is live and changes as servers report. For a clearer view, see the lists of vanilla and modded servers.