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Rust player count

Rust Statistics

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Abstract

We count 91,259 players on 11,801 public Rust servers right now, and 951 more waiting in queues1. Over the last 24 hours the count peaked at 98,991 (18:00 UTC) and fell to 33,256 (05:00 UTC); this hour stands +0.0% against the same hour yesterday. The busiest hour of the week is 17:00 UTC. The highest daily peak since 11 June is 145,095, on 3 October. Players are concentrated: the ten busiest servers hold 12% of them, the hundred busiest 49%, and 105 servers hold half.

Keywordsplayer count population concentration game modes regions gather rates

1Introduction

The Rust player count is the number of connected players reported by public Rust servers, summed; it stands at 91,259 across 11,801 servers and is refreshed every five minutes. The figure excludes players in menus, loading screens and on servers that do not list themselves. Below it, the same population is split by game mode, modded or vanilla, group size, gather rate, region and wipe day, and the concentration of players on a small share of servers is shown.

2Data and method

Every few minutes we read the public server list and sum the players each server reports, leaving out the servers on the banlist. The daily history before 12 September is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is our own2. Every server online is counted once in each breakdown of Section 4, so each adds up to the 91,259 players on 11,801 servers. Table 1 gives the headline figures.

Table 1: The count now, and the last day and months.
MeasureValueNote
Players online91,259right now
In queues951waiting to join
Servers online11,801public, not banned
With players on3,949of 11,801 online
Peak, last 24 h98,991at 18:00 UTC
Low, last 24 h33,256at 05:00 UTC
Against yesterday+0.0%hourly averages compared
Busiest hour17:00UTC, 97,734 on average; quietest 05:00
Highest daily peak145,095on 3 Oct, since 11 Jun

3Results

Figure 1 shows the last two days hour by hour, Figure 2 every day since 11 June, and Figure 3 the average day of the last week.

3.1The last 48 hours

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Figure 1: Players across Rust, hourly mean, last 48 hours (UTC).

3.2Every day

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Figure 2: Players across Rust, daily mean, every day since 11 June. Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is our own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.

3.3The hour of the day

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Figure 3: When Rust is busiest: average players by hour of the day over the last week, UTC; the busiest hour in black.

4Composition

Tables 2–9 split the 91,259 players eight ways. Each split counts every server once, so its groups add up to the total; the bar above each table stacks them to 100%. The first three also give each group's last 48 hours and its change against 24 hours earlier.

Table 2: Official or not: Rust's in-game Official tab against everything else.
GroupPlayersShareServers48 hΔ 24 h
Officialthe in-game Official tab 14,404 15.8% 246 +17%
Non-officialcommunity and modded servers 76,855 84.2% 11,555 −3%
All players online91,259100%11,801

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

Table 3: Modded or not: rates, rules and plugins.
GroupPlayersShareServers48 hΔ 24 h
Moddedrates, kits or rules changed 63,486 69.6% 8,488 −3%
Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded 11,108 12.2% 992 +23%
Unmoddedno plugin framework at all 16,665 18.3% 2,321 −1%
All players online91,259100%11,801

Oxide runs on 7,482 servers with 54,505 players, Carbon on 1,894 with 16,848. 2,661 servers with 45,381 players call themselves vanilla.

Table 4: By game mode: what each server is for.
GroupPlayersShareServers48 hΔ 24 h
Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid 72,655 79.6% 9,184 +1%
PvEno fighting other players 4,335 4.8% 1,429 −6%
Minigames & battle royalearenas, Bedwars, parkour, battle royale 3,989 4.4% 181 −13%
Battlefieldfast PvP with kits and high rates 3,653 4.0% 144 +13%
Combat trainingaim and PvP practice, loot handed out 3,323 3.6% 84 −17%
Build & creativesandbox building, no gathering 1,497 1.6% 192 +35%
SoftcoreFacepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot 952 1.0% 232 −8%
Roleplaytowns, jobs and roleplay rules 613 0.7% 205 −4%
HardcoreFacepunch's hardest mode 170 0.2% 124 +2%
Primitiveno guns: bows, spears and melee 72 0.1% 26 −20%
All players online91,259100%11,801

Premium-only servers (296, with 1,800 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.

Table 5: By region: where the server says it is.
GroupPlayersShareServers
Europe 53,397 58.5% 2,558
North America 7,143 7.8% 1,659
Asia 3,370 3.7% 416
South America 816 0.9% 152
Oceania 683 0.7% 183
Africa 25 <0.1% 23
Not published 25,825 28.3% 6,810
All players online91,259100%11,801
Table 6: By gather rate, read from the server's name.
GroupPlayersShareServers
1x 779 0.9% 121
1.5x 757 0.8% 41
2x 29,738 32.6% 1,523
3x 7,865 8.6% 571
5x 4,478 4.9% 446
10x 2,750 3.0% 325
Other, under 100x 1,202 1.3% 137
100x and more 2,608 2.9% 204
No rate in the name 41,082 45.0% 8,433
All players online91,259100%11,801
Table 7: By group size: the team limit servers publish.
GroupPlayersShareServers
Solo 2,303 2.5% 195
Duo 6,656 7.3% 368
Trio 8,608 9.4% 527
Quad 5,097 5.6% 615
5 to 7 4,260 4.7% 327
8, the game's default 16,246 17.8% 8,142
More than 8 40,946 44.9% 1,333
Not published 7,143 7.8% 294
All players online91,259100%11,801
Table 8: By last wipe: how fresh the map is.
GroupPlayersShareServers
In the last 24 hours 30,513 33.4% 872
1 to 3 days ago 26,081 28.6% 1,032
3 to 7 days ago 19,499 21.4% 2,207
1 to 2 weeks ago 4,188 4.6% 1,943
2 to 4 weeks ago 10,732 11.8% 5,242
Over 4 weeks ago 223 0.2% 489
Unknown 23 <0.1% 16
All players online91,259100%11,801
Table 9: By wipe schedule, as servers publish it.
GroupPlayersShareServers
Weekly 45,478 49.8% 1,625
Every two weeks 9,197 10.1% 1,101
Monthly 23,236 25.5% 3,514
Not published 13,348 14.6% 5,561
All players online91,259100%11,801

5Concentration

A few servers hold most of the players. Write sk for the share of everyone online who are on the k busiest servers, and N½ for the fewest servers that together hold half of all players. Then, at the latest count,

s10 = 12%, s100 = 49%, N½ = 105
(1)

out of 11,801 servers online. Table 10 sorts every server by the players on it now.

Table 10: By server size: the players on each server now.
GroupPlayersShareServers
200 or more 45,913 50.3% 106
100 to 199 13,223 14.5% 92
50 to 99 11,088 12.2% 162
10 to 49 13,190 14.5% 632
1 to 9 7,845 8.6% 2,957
Empty 0 0.0% 7,852
All players online91,259100%11,801

6The busiest servers

Table 11 names the ten servers with the most players this minute; every server is in the server list [5].

Table 11: Busiest servers right now. all servers →
No.ServerRegionPlayers
1 EU | Helli's Aimtrain | Facechecks/1v1/Ranked/Hellis168.100.161.166:27017 EU 1997/2100
2 MIRAGE RUST | TUESDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 27.1080.242.59.180:35002 EU 1619+68/1700
3 MIRAGE RUST | MONDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 26.1080.242.59.29:35002 EU 1080/1900
4 Atlas - EU 2X Monthly | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes195.60.166.166:28015 EU 1011/1050
5 RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars | AimTrain | Creative | Arena | FFA64.40.9.156:28015 EU 985/950
6 Atlas - EU 3x | No BPs | Mondays195.60.166.23:28015 EU 941/950
7 Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|208.103.169.221:28015 EU 822+34/850
8 Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes168.100.161.198:28015 EU 802/800
9 Rustoria.co - EU Mondays46.105.94.250:28013 EU 800/875
10 SURVIVORS.GG #2 [ 2x Vanilla ] WIPED 27.10194.54.88.104:28015 – 778+40/750

Appendix AQuestions

A.1How is the live Rust player count measured?

Each public server reports its connected player count, and Rust Statistics sums those reports every five minutes; the last total is shown as 91,259. A server that misses a refresh is carried at its previous value until the next successful report, so the figure can lag a disconnect by one interval. Steam's own count is higher because it includes players outside public servers.

A.2Why does the count differ from Steam's?

Steam counts every client with Rust running, including menus, loading screens and servers not publicly listed. This page counts only players on public servers, because only those reports can be split by type, region and wipe. The gap between the two figures is therefore a measure of players outside the public-server sample, not an error in either.

A.3When during the day are most players online?

The population follows a daily cycle, and the busiest hour normally carries more than twice the players of the quietest. European evening is the usual peak, because it overlaps with late afternoon in North America and late evening in eastern Europe. The hour-by-hour figure on this page is an average over the preceding week, stated in UTC, and it will not match any single day exactly.

A.4How few servers hold most of the players?

Population is concentrated: a minority of servers carries most of the total, while a long tail of servers reports few or no players at any given refresh. The concentration table ranks servers by live population and gives the cumulative share, so you can read how many servers are needed to reach half of 91,259. Servers near the top change between refreshes, which is expected for a live measurement.

References

  1. [1]Rust Statistics. Server status explained. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-status-check.
  2. [2]Rust Statistics. All best Rust server lists. ruststatistics.org/best-rust-servers-ranked.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Live europe server counts. ruststatistics.org/top-eu-rust-servers.
  4. [4]Rust Statistics. Browse modded Rust servers. ruststatistics.org/top-modded-rust-servers.
  5. [5]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.