Rust servers are up.

Is Rust down?

We read the public server list every five minutes and compare it with what is normal for this hour. The verdict sits at the top of this page. If it says servers are up, the game is not down.

The check covers every public server, not a sample. A normal reading runs near 11,799 servers online with 92,735 players. You can see the same figure on our live player count page.

Is your server down, or Rust?

A single server missing from the list is a restart, a wipe or a host problem. Every server page here shows the last time we saw it, so you can tell a reboot from an outage.

If nothing appears in your in-game browser while this page says the network is up, the fault is local or on Steam. In order of what usually fixes it:

1. Restart Steam, then Rust. The server browser is a Steam service, and a stale login shows an empty list.
2. Clear your filters. A region or tag set weeks ago can hide everything.
3. Check Steam's own status. When Steam's list goes down, every game's browser empties and our reading usually dips too.
4. On force wipe day, update Rust. Servers restart one by one, and your client must be on the new build. Our force wipe countdown has the date.
5. Try without a VPN. Strict firewalls and corporate networks block the UDP traffic the browser needs.

What the 48-hour chart shows

The chart on this page plots the last two days of player numbers. The line has a daily shape: it rises into the evening and falls overnight. Use it to judge whether today looks like yesterday at the same time. A drop that matches the usual dip is not an outage.

How the top servers are doing

The biggest servers by live players are listed on our ranked server list. If they are up, the game is up for most players. During a force wipe, the whole list restarts and the numbers fall for about an hour. That is expected, not downtime.