Players
RUSTY METAL
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 23 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 13% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 17 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 18 Oct, 01:14 UTC10d ago | 4 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:43 UTC FW26d ago | 4 | held half | 16.1 days | 0 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 22:53 UTC34d ago | 4 | halved by day 2 | 8 days | 0 |
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 RUSTY METAL online, and how reliable is it?
You will find RUSTY METAL online at this moment. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 14 hours ago. It stayed up 100% of the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. Rust Charts has tracked it since 22 September 2026.
Where is RUSTY METAL located?
There's no region listed for RUSTY METAL. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. You'll find it at 51.81.167.181:60402.
Which version of Rust does RUSTY METAL run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what RUSTY METAL runs. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does RUSTY METAL run smoothly?
It averaged 128 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 74. At its fullest it held 127,291 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Its memory climbed as high as 4,106 MB. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Player counts
How busy is RUSTY METAL?
RUSTY METAL has 1 of its 100 slots filled right now. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it reached 4 at most. Over the past 48 hours, 03:00 UTC drew the most, at 3 players on average.
How does RUSTY METAL rank against other Rust servers?
The top 13% of ranked servers includes RUSTY METAL, at #2,784 on player hours for the last week.
Wipes and resets
What does wipe day look like on RUSTY METAL?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 4 players. The crowd on the latest wipe hit its peak 17 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 50% of its recent wipes. By day 2 it had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on RUSTY METAL?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all RUSTY METAL runs. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. 10 days 3 hours is how long ago its current world was made. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.
Settings and map
What are the rules and settings on RUSTY METAL?
You will not find a gather rate in the name RUSTY METAL. 8 players is the group limit, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser shows it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugins it runs number Oxide. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does RUSTY METAL run?
The map on RUSTY METAL is procedural, size 4,500, seed 1337, made by the game. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps; the same size and seed make the same map.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include RUSTY METAL?
The Rust Charts lists that carry RUSTY METAL are: Modded Rust servers. On the server list, these filters put it in view: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What do the server tags on RUSTY METAL mean?
These are the tags RUSTY METAL makes public, and the server browser reads them: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, in the standard Rust form; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what runs here; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the Facepunch force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Plugins are handled by Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Listed as modded because plugins or settings differ from the base game. 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 RUSTY METAL?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 51.81.167.181:60402. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
