Live · thermal survey of the whole game
Rust player count
players on 11,806 public Rust servers right now, and 900 more waiting in queues
Last updated · 10m ago · a new count every few minutes
Official or not
Rust's in-game Official tab against everything elseOfficial servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Heatmap keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
Every player on a public Rust server right now, taken from what each server reports every five minutes. Below the total is the same population split by game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and days since wipe. A few servers hold most of the players; the rest carry the long tail. The last figure was checked at 27 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC.
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
UTCPlayers across Rust · every day since 11 June
daily averageBefore 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Heatmap'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 90,172 players on 11,806 servers. Each group glows with its players, on a square-root span to the biggest group in its breakdown.
Modded or not
rates, rules and pluginsOxide runs on 7,486 servers with 53,664 players, Carbon on 1,894 with 16,733. 2,662 servers with 44,737 players call themselves vanilla.
By game mode
what each server is forPremium-only servers (296, with 1,768 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.
By region
where the server says it isBy gather rate
read from the server's nameBy group size
the team limit servers publishBy last wipe
how fresh the map isBy wipe schedule
what servers publishBy server size
players on each server nowWhen Rust is busiest
average over the last week · UTCBusiest servers right now
all servers →-
1
2,029°/ 2100
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2
1,622°+73/ 1700
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3
1,118°/ 1900
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4
968°/ 1050
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5
918°/ 950
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6
881°/ 950
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7
847°/ 849
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8
819°/ 875
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9
813°+31/ 850
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10
763°/ 800
Questions
Q01How many people are playing Rust right now?
The figure at the top of this page is every player counted on a public Rust server, refreshed every five minutes. It rises and falls through the day. The last check was at 27 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC.
Q02Why is this lower than Steam's player count?
Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including players in menus and on servers that do not list publicly. This page counts players on public servers only, which is what allows the split by game mode, region and wipe day. The gap between the two figures comes from those uncounted players.
Q03When is Rust busiest?
In the European evening, which is also late morning on the US east coast and early morning in Australia. The busiest hour usually holds several times the players of the quietest. Wipe day adds a second, shorter peak on top of that pattern.
Q04Are more people on modded or vanilla servers?
Modded servers hold more players in total, mostly because there are many more of them. The live split above is reported by the servers themselves and changes as they update.