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Rust player count
players on 11,778 public Rust servers right now, and 664 more waiting in queues
Last updated · 14m ago · a new count every few minutes
Official or not
Official servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Top Rust Servers keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
This is every player on a public Rust server, summed from what each server reports. Right now that reads 92,727 players across 11,778 servers, and 664 more are waiting in queues. The count refreshes every five minutes, so it tracks the day as it turns: the busiest hour usually runs at more than twice the quietest, with the European evening holding the peak.
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
Players across Rust · every day since 11 June
Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Top Rust Servers'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 92,727 players on 11,778 servers.
Modded or not
Oxide runs on 7,205 servers with 53,205 players, Carbon on 1,925 with 14,830. 2,660 servers with 46,951 players call themselves vanilla.
By game mode
Premium-only servers (295, with 3,241 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.
By region
By gather rate
By group size
By last wipe
By wipe schedule
By server size
When Rust is busiest
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01
2,324/ 2350
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02
1,332/ 1650
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03
1,161/ 1500
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04
894/ 900
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05
831/ 1600
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06
771/ 800
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07
742+5/ 750
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08
742/ 800
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09
669/ 725
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10
666/ 700
Questions
Q01How many people are playing Rust right now?
The figure at the top of this page is every player on a public Rust server, counted from what each server reports, and it updates every five minutes. It moves through the day, so a reading at 20:00 UTC is rarely the same as one at 06:00 UTC.
Q02How does this compare to Steam's player count for Rust?
Steam counts everyone with the game open, including players in menus, in loading screens and on servers that do not list themselves publicly. This page counts players on public servers only, which is what allows the split by mode, gather rate, group size and region further down.
Q03When is Rust busiest?
The peak falls in the European evening, with a second, smaller rise for the US evening that runs past midnight in the UK. Australian evenings land in the UK morning. The daily history on this page shows the curve in UTC, so you can plan a session around the quiet hours.