players on 11,728 public Rust servers right now, and 1,344 more waiting in queues
Last updated
· 10m ago
· a new count every few minutes
peak, last 24 hours104,688at 17:00 UTC
low, last 24 hours35,588at 05:00 UTC
vs this hour yesterday-8.7%hourly averages compared
busiest hour, UTC18:00108,307 on average; quietest 05:00
servers with players on4,221of 11,728 online
highest daily peak145,095on 3 Oct, since 11 Jun
Official or not
Rust's in-game Official tab against everything else
PlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago
Officialthe in-game Official tab252 servers
17,744
19.7%
252
-15%
Non-officialcommunity and modded servers11,476 servers
72,225
80.3%
11,476
-5%
All players online11,728 servers
89,969
100%
11,728
Official servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Vending Machine keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
This is the live stock of players across every public Rust server, refreshed every five minutes. You'll see the current count of 89,969 on 11,728 servers, with 1,344 waiting and the day's 104,688 so far. Below that, the last day and the last months, then the split by game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and wipe day. A small share of servers holds most of the players — browse the shelves to see which ones.
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
UTC
Players across Rust · every day since 11 June
daily average
Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Vending Machine's own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.
Stock sheets
How the players split
Every server online is counted once in each breakdown, so each one adds up to the 89,969 players on 11,728 servers.
Modded or not
rates, rules and plugins
PlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago
Moddedrates, kits or rules changed8,247 servers
57,142
63.5%
8,247
-7%
Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded949 servers
12,156
13.5%
949
-4%
Unmoddedno plugin framework at all2,532 servers
20,671
23.0%
2,532
-9%
All players online11,728 servers
89,969
100%
11,728
Oxide runs on 7,191 servers with 51,617 players, Carbon on 1,914 with 14,531. 2,653 servers with 45,849 players call themselves vanilla.
By game mode
what each server is for
PlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago
Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid9,144 servers
The number at the top of this page is every player on a public Rust server, updated every five minutes. It rises and falls through the day, with the 104,688 usually in the European evening. The 145,095 all-time high is also shown.
02Why is this different from Steam's player count?
Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including menus, loading screens and servers that don't list publicly. This page counts only players on public servers. That's why it can also split them by server type, region and wipe day.
03When is Rust busiest?
The busiest hour is the European evening, and the quietest is early morning UTC. The chart above shows the hourly average over the last week, so you can see today's 104,688 against that. Weekends are busier than weekdays.
04Do modded servers have more players than vanilla?
Modded servers hold more players in total, mostly because there are many more of them. The live split above shows the current balance and changes as servers report. Vanilla servers often have higher average players per server.