Official Rust servers

Every five minutes: player count, queue and status are pulled from each server's public query, and the page shows the time of the last refresh. Rows that drop offline stay in the index until the next successful poll but are marked offline. If a number looks stale, compare the refresh time in the header with your clock.

The server is run by Facepunch or by a partner network that has been approved to host official servers. It usually means a vanilla or lightly modded ruleset, a stable administration team and a wipe schedule you can predict, but the tag itself only describes the operator. Check the tags field for the settings and the group limit field on the row to check the play style.

A queue appears when player count has reached max players. Official servers attract regulars who know the wipe time, so queues cluster right after a wipe and in regional evenings. The queue field is fixed at the last refresh; a queue of a few usually clears quickly, a queue in the hundreds means hours rather than minutes.

Yes. Region, group limit, wipe estimate and tag are all filters on the table, and they combine. Set the region first, because population thins sharply outside the EU evening, then set group limit if you play solo, duo or trio. The same filters work on the full list at /rust-servers.