Rust HeatmapInfrared · players
IR live Players89,289 Servers11,829 Warm4,008 Fresh wipes · 3h14 Frameevery 5 min
‹ All serversThermal scan
REC Thermal scan · 48 h Sp1 0° now Linear · 0–50° · slots

Sober Rust

Online 188.42.131.180:28015 checked 2h ago

Sp1 · players now 0/ 50
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
Mon 20:00flare: a wipe in that hourWed 17:00
0
7-day average
peak –
#15,373
rank
top 69%
16d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
no wipe seen yet
UTC checked 2h ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k12 Oct15 Oct18 Oct22 Oct25 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

Bx6Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|
EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 552 on average
636 / 675
Rustoria.co - EU East Long
EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 318 on average
485 / 525
Rusty Moose |EU Main|
EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 299 on average
59 / 250
Rustoria.co - EU Main
EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 298 on average
36 / 250
Rustafied.com - EU Friday
EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 270 on average
138 / 200
Rustoria.co - EU East Medium
EU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 256 on average
255 / 300

LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What is the wipe schedule on Sober Rust?

Sober Rust has too few wipes on record yet for its rhythm to show. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now dates from 16 days 15 hours ago.

Player counts

How busy is Sober Rust?

Of 50 slots on Sober Rust, 0 are in use right now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players.

How does Sober Rust rank against other Rust servers?

Ranked #15,373 on seven-day player hours, Sober Rust is in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

Map and rules

Which map does Sober Rust run?

Sober Rust runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 612351, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Sober Rust?

A gather rate is not given in the name Sober Rust. Groups can contain up to 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Players can fight each other, and raids are allowed. You will find it under Community in the server browser; it is a community server. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.

Location and uptime

Which version of Rust does Sober Rust run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows is what Sober Rust runs. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Sober Rust online, and how reliable is it?

Right now Sober Rust shows as online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 16 days 11 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 100%. The first record of it on Rust Heatmap is 12 October 2026.

Where is Sober Rust located?

A region is not published for Sober Rust. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. To connect, use 188.42.131.180:28015.

Does Sober Rust run smoothly?

It averaged 60 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a low of 58. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 45,180 entities. The highest memory use was 3,478 MB. What players call lag is low fps together with a growing entity count.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Sober Rust?

The Rust Heatmap lists that Sober Rust fits are: Best Rust community servers. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Sober Rust mean?

gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2634 to get in; cs167398 (Build): Build 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set are the tags Sober Rust publishes, and the server browser reads them. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.

Connect

How do I join Sober Rust?

Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 188.42.131.180:28015. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find it online at https://low.ms/game-servers/rust-server-hosting.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs167398,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp50
Max players The slot count is 50.
ts8
Group limit The game default applies: 8 per team at most.
v2634
Protocol Your game must match protocol 2634 to get in.
cs167398
Build Build 167398.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.