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Rust player count

Q: How many people are playing Rust right now?

The figure at the top of this page is the sum of player counts reported by every public Rust server at the last refresh, five minutes old at most. It moves through the day; the day chart shows where the current reading sits against the last 24 hours. Queued players are counted separately, since they are not yet on a server.

Q: Why is this number lower than Steam's?

Steam counts every client with Rust open: menus, loading screens, private and unlisted servers. This page counts only players on servers that publish themselves to the public list, because those are the rows we can attribute to a mode, region and wipe schedule. The gap between the two figures is roughly the size of the private and in-menu population.

Q: When are Rust servers busiest?

The hour-of-day field in the history chart gives this directly, averaged over the past week in UTC. European evening hours carry the highest population, with US evening adding a second, lower rise. Wipe days break the pattern: the hours after a force wipe hold far more players than the same hour a week later.

Q: Do modded or vanilla servers have more players?

Modded servers usually hold more players in total, and also account for most of the server count, so the per-server average matters more than the sum. The live split above shows both totals and both averages at the last refresh. Filter the server list by modded status if you want to check the per-server figures yourself.

Everyone on a public server right now

players = rust.servers(online=True)["players"]
players.sum()

93,410

players on 11,800 public Rust servers right now, and 907 more waiting in queues

# Last updated 27 Oct 2026, 16:30 UTC · 10m ago · a new count every few minutes

The last day in numbers

players.describe(window="24h")

peak, last 24 hours: 98,991; at 18:00 UTC
low, last 24 hours: 33,256; at 05:00 UTC
vs this hour yesterday: -2.9%; hourly averages compared
busiest hour, UTC: 17:00; 97,734 on average; quietest 05:00
servers with players on: 3,993; of 11,800 online
highest daily peak: 145,095; on 3 Oct, since 11 Jun

Name: players, dtype: int64

players.groupby("official").agg(["sum", "share", "count"]).style.bar("share")

Official or not

Rust's in-game Official tab against everything else

official	players	share	servers	vs 24h ago
Officialthe in-game Official tab	14,709	15.7%	246	-9%
Non-officialcommunity and modded servers	78,701	84.3%	11,554	-2%
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

# Official servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Data keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.

The first field is the count: 93,410 players on 11,800 public servers at the last refresh, with 907 more queued to join. Below that, the same population sampled across intervals — the last day by hour, the last months by day — then split by modded status, game mode, group size, gather rate, region and wipe age. Read the spread before the total: a few servers hold most of the rows.

Players across Rust · last 48 hours · UTC

history.resample("1h").mean().plot()

Players across Rust · every day since 11 June · daily average

history.resample("1D").mean().plot()

Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Data's own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.

How the players split

Every server online is counted once in each breakdown, so each one adds up to the 93,410 players on 11,800 servers.

for col in ["style", "mode"]:
    display(players.groupby(col).agg(["sum", "share", "count"]).style.bar("share"))

Modded or not

rates, rules and plugins

style	players	share	servers	vs 24h ago
Moddedrates, kits or rules changed	64,934	69.5%	8,489	-4%
Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded	11,437	12.2%	993	+8%
Unmoddedno plugin framework at all	17,039	18.2%	2,318	-7%
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

# Oxide runs on 7,482 servers with 56,028 players, Carbon on 1,895 with 17,021. 2,661 servers with 46,359 players call themselves vanilla.

By game mode

what each server is for

mode	players	share	servers	vs 24h ago
Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid	74,141	79.4%	9,182	-4%
PvEno fighting other players	4,448	4.8%	1,427	-6%
Minigames & battle royalearenas, Bedwars, parkour, battle royale	4,170	4.5%	181	-2%
Battlefieldfast PvP with kits and high rates	3,667	3.9%	144	+12%
Combat trainingaim and PvP practice, loot handed out	3,538	3.8%	83	+3%
Build & creativesandbox building, no gathering	1,540	1.6%	193	+19%
SoftcoreFacepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot	991	1.1%	234	-5%
Roleplaytowns, jobs and roleplay rules	656	0.7%	205	-8%
HardcoreFacepunch's hardest mode	185	0.2%	125	+7%
Primitiveno guns: bows, spears and melee	74	0.1%	26	-15%
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

# Premium-only servers (297, with 1,864 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.

for col in ["region", "gather", "group_size"]:
    display(players.groupby(col).agg(["sum", "share", "count"]))

By region

where the server says it is

region	players	share	servers
Europe	54,967	58.8%	2,557
North America	7,640	8.2%	1,658
Asia	3,161	3.4%	417
South America	906	1.0%	152
Oceania	632	0.7%	182
Africa	28	<0.1%	23
Not published	26,076	27.9%	6,811
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

By gather rate

read from the server's name

gather	players	share	servers
1x	779	0.8%	121
1.5x	753	0.8%	41
2x	29,985	32.1%	1,525
3x	8,336	8.9%	572
5x	4,705	5.0%	446
10x	2,875	3.1%	324
Other, under 100x	1,183	1.3%	136
100x and more	2,708	2.9%	204
No rate in the name	42,086	45.1%	8,431
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

By group size

the team limit servers publish

group_size	players	share	servers
Solo	2,323	2.5%	195
Duo	6,846	7.3%	369
Trio	8,938	9.6%	527
Quad	5,326	5.7%	616
5 to 7	4,508	4.8%	327
8, the game's default	16,490	17.7%	8,133
More than 8	41,675	44.6%	1,335
Not published	7,304	7.8%	298
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

for col in ["last_wipe", "schedule", "size"]:
    display(players.groupby(col).agg(["sum", "share", "count"]))

By last wipe

how fresh the map is

last_wipe	players	share	servers
In the last 24 hours	31,381	33.6%	853
1 to 3 days ago	26,312	28.2%	1,035
3 to 7 days ago	20,041	21.5%	2,209
1 to 2 weeks ago	4,361	4.7%	1,949
2 to 4 weeks ago	11,071	11.9%	5,251
Over 4 weeks ago	233	0.2%	487
Unknown	11	<0.1%	16
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

By wipe schedule

what servers publish

schedule	players	share	servers
Weekly	46,095	49.3%	1,627
Every two weeks	9,486	10.2%	1,101
Monthly	24,176	25.9%	3,512
Not published	13,653	14.6%	5,560
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

By server size

players on each server now

12%on the 10 busiest

49%on the 100 busiest

107servers hold half

size	players	share	servers
200 or more	47,458	50.8%	110
100 to 199	13,100	14.0%	90
50 to 99	11,406	12.2%	167
10 to 49	13,569	14.5%	648
1 to 9	7,877	8.4%	2,978
Empty	0	0.0%	7,807
All players online	93,410	100%	11,800

When Rust is busiest · average over the last week · UTC

history.groupby(history.index.hour).mean().plot.bar()

Busiest servers right now

servers.nlargest(10, "players")

	server	region	players
0	EU \| Helli's Aimtrain \| Facechecks/1v1/Ranked/Hellis168.100.161.166:27017	EU	2162/2100
1	MIRAGE RUST \| TUESDAY 2x \| VANILLA+ \| Wipe 27.1080.242.59.180:35002	EU	1599+52/1700
2	MIRAGE RUST \| MONDAY 2x \| VANILLA+ \| Wipe 26.1080.242.59.29:35002	EU	1047/1900
3	RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars \| AimTrain \| Creative \| Arena \| FFA64.40.9.156:28015	EU	1034/950
4	Atlas - EU 2X Monthly \| Vanilla+ \| No BP Wipes195.60.166.166:28015	EU	987/1050
5	Atlas - EU 3x \| No BPs \| Mondays195.60.166.23:28015	EU	957/950
6	Vital Rust - EU Monthly \| 2x \| Vanilla+ \| No BP Wipes168.100.161.198:28015	EU	832/800
7	Rusty Moose \|EU Mondays\|208.103.169.221:28015	EU	819+32/850
8	Rustoria.co - EU Mondays46.105.94.250:28013	EU	802/875
9	SURVIVORS.GG #2 [ 2x Vanilla ] WIPED 27.10194.54.88.104:28015	–	787+59/750

10 rows × 3 columns · all servers →

Questions

How many people are playing Rust right now?

The figure at the top of this page is the sum of player counts reported by every public Rust server at the last refresh, five minutes old at most. It moves through the day; the day chart shows where the current reading sits against the last 24 hours. Queued players are counted separately, since they are not yet on a server.

Why is this number lower than Steam's?

Steam counts every client with Rust open: menus, loading screens, private and unlisted servers. This page counts only players on servers that publish themselves to the public list, because those are the rows we can attribute to a mode, region and wipe schedule. The gap between the two figures is roughly the size of the private and in-menu population.

When are Rust servers busiest?

The hour-of-day field in the history chart gives this directly, averaged over the past week in UTC. European evening hours carry the highest population, with US evening adding a second, lower rise. Wipe days break the pattern: the hours after a force wipe hold far more players than the same hour a week later.

Do modded or vanilla servers have more players?

Modded servers usually hold more players in total, and also account for most of the server count, so the per-server average matters more than the sum. The live split above shows both totals and both averages at the last refresh. Filter the server list by modded status if you want to check the per-server figures yourself.