On air · chart position #15,338
Cheese
Online 157.85.89.204:24358 checked 11m ago
Players
Cheese
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC17d ago | 3+1 queue | – | running | 2 |
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.
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Quick answers
About the server
Is Cheese online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Cheese is running. About 2 days 15 hours ago is when it last restarted, to go by the uptime it reports. It stayed up 99% of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours. The first record Rust Charts holds of it is 12 October 2026.
Where is Cheese located?
No region is published by Cheese. Where a server says it is — that's what Rust Charts shows, without checking the machine's real location. 157.85.89.204:24358 is its address.
Which version of Rust does Cheese run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Cheese runs. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Does Cheese run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 236 server fps; the lowest point was 197. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 30,232 entities. Its memory climbed as high as 2,963 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
Who is on
How busy is Cheese?
Right now 0 players are on Cheese, out of 3 slots. Its average over the past week comes to 0 players.
How does Cheese rank against other Rust servers?
The top 69% of ranked servers includes Cheese, at #15,338 on player hours for the last week.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on Cheese?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 3 players. 1 waited in the queue as the latest wipe peaked, 0 hours after it began.
What is the wipe schedule on Cheese?
Too few wipes on record for Cheese to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and it covers every Rust server. 17 days 5 hours is how long ago its current world was made.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on Cheese?
You will not find a gather rate in the name Cheese. 8 players is the group limit, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is active.
Which map does Cheese run?
Cheese runs a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 50000, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Cheese?
The Rust Charts lists that carry Cheese are: Rust community servers, unmodded. On the server list, these filters put it in view: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on Cheese mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from Cheese: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp3 (Max players): The server holds 3 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, as the game ships it; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made. You'll find them at the top of this page.
How to join
How do I join Cheese?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.