Rust player count
Counted at , 21m ago. A new count every five minutes.
Players over time
Hourly average, UTC.
Daily average since 11 June. Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Server Now's own, without the banned servers.
Average players at each hour of the day over the last week, UTC.
Every player on a public Rust server, counted from each server's report every five minutes. The current figure is 116,643 on 11,713 servers. Below, the same population over the last day and the last months. Then the splits: game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region, wipe day. A small share of servers holds most of the players.
The meta right now
every split counts each server once, so its shares make up all 116,643 playersOfficial or not
Rust's in-game Official tab| Officialthe in-game Official tab | 22.4% | 26,159 -4% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-officialcommunity and modded servers | 77.6% | 90,484 +21% |
Modded or not
rates, rules and plugins| Moddedrates, kits or rules changed | 61.7% | 71,948 +22% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded | 14.6% | 16,976 +15% | |
| Unmoddedno plugin framework at all | 23.8% | 27,719 -0% |
Oxide on 7,151 servers, Carbon on 1,861; 2,636 call themselves vanilla.
Game mode
what each server is for| Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid | 82.0% | 95,603 +18% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PvEno fighting other players | 5.6% | 6,513 +3% | |
| Minigames & battle royalearenas, Bedwars, parkour, battle royale | 3.1% | 3,565 +1% | |
| Combat trainingaim and PvP practice, loot handed out | 2.8% | 3,260 +7% | |
| Battlefieldfast PvP with kits and high rates | 2.6% | 3,007 -1% | |
| SoftcoreFacepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot | 1.6% | 1,811 -2% | |
| Build & creativesandbox building, no gathering | 1.3% | 1,520 -2% | |
| Roleplaytowns, jobs and roleplay rules | 0.9% | 1,000 +3% | |
| HardcoreFacepunch's hardest mode | 0.2% | 284 +4% | |
| Primitiveno guns: bows, spears and melee | 0.1% | 80 -22% |
Premium-only servers (291) count in their mode.
Region
where the server says it is| Europe | 55.3% | 64,543 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 9.9% | 11,530 | |
| Asia | 4.4% | 5,153 | |
| South America | 1.3% | 1,477 | |
| Oceania | 0.8% | 975 | |
| Africa | <0.1% | 54 | |
| Not published | 28.2% | 32,911 |
Gather rate
read from the server's name| 1x | 1.4% | 1,639 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5x | 1.3% | 1,499 | |
| 2x | 30.2% | 35,186 | |
| 3x | 7.5% | 8,726 | |
| 5x | 4.3% | 4,995 | |
| 10x | 2.5% | 2,964 | |
| Other, under 100x | 1.1% | 1,242 | |
| 100x and more | 2.0% | 2,360 | |
| No rate in the name | 49.8% | 58,032 |
Group size
the team limit published| Solo | 2.6% | 3,033 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duo | 5.8% | 6,820 | |
| Trio | 9.4% | 10,965 | |
| Quad | 4.7% | 5,512 | |
| 5 to 7 | 4.6% | 5,359 | |
| 8, the game's default | 20.3% | 23,727 | |
| More than 8 | 46.2% | 53,853 | |
| Not published | 6.3% | 7,374 |
Last wipe
how fresh the map is| In the last 24 hours | 41.5% | 48,356 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 days ago | 18.7% | 21,833 | |
| 3 to 7 days ago | 5.8% | 6,811 | |
| 1 to 2 weeks ago | 33.7% | 39,298 | |
| 2 to 4 weeks ago | 0.2% | 219 | |
| Over 4 weeks ago | 0.1% | 119 | |
| Unknown | <0.1% | 7 |
Wipe schedule
what servers publish| Weekly | 46.4% | 54,116 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every two weeks | 8.8% | 10,268 | |
| Monthly | 32.6% | 38,060 | |
| Not published | 12.2% | 14,199 |
Server size
players on each server now| 200 or more | 50.1% | 58,449 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 to 199 | 16.7% | 19,430 | |
| 50 to 99 | 12.3% | 14,355 | |
| 10 to 49 | 13.5% | 15,711 | |
| 1 to 9 | 7.5% | 8,698 | |
| Empty | 0.0% | 0 |
Who holds the players
Busiest servers
Server browser-
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EU | Helli's Aimtrain | Facechecks/1v1/Speargun/HellisEU · 168.100.161.166:27017Unranked1857/1850
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MIRAGE RUST | MAIN 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 09.10EU · 185.189.255.143:35002Unranked1358/1425 +9
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MIRAGE RUST | FRIDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 09.10EU · 185.207.214.133:35002Unranked1320/1400
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Atlas - EU 2X Monthly | Vanilla+ | No BP WipesEU · 195.60.166.166:28015Unranked1190/1250
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RUST ROOM 1.5x | MAIN | Wipe 09.10– · 195.18.27.191:10001Unranked977/1040
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Rustafied.com - EU FridayEU · 195.60.166.150:28018Unranked968/950 +617
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Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · 208.103.169.247:28015Unranked940/1000
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RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars | AimTrain | Creative | Arena | FFAEU · 64.40.9.156:28015Unranked918/950
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Magic Rust #13 — Vanilla 2x | Baйп 09.10– · 185.207.214.134:10010Unranked876/900 +191
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Survivors.gg Main [ 2x Vanilla ] WIPED 09.10– · 194.54.88.75:28015Unranked839/850 +107
Briefing
4 questions01How many people are playing Rust right now?
116,643 players are on public Rust servers now, refreshed every five minutes. The total moves through the day and is usually highest in the European evening.
02Why is this lower than Steam's player count?
Steam counts every client with Rust open, including menus and servers that do not report publicly. This page counts players on public servers only, so the split by server type is possible.
03When is Rust busiest?
The European evening, in UTC. The daily chart shows the busiest hour over the last week. Evening in Australia is late morning in the UK, and the US east coast evening is after midnight in the UK.
04Are more people on modded or vanilla servers?
Modded servers hold more players in total, because there are more of them. Vanilla servers have more players per server. The live split above updates as servers report.