Players
Rusty Cage
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 22% of all ranked servers, top 45% in NA, and #252 of the duo servers (top 60%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Tuesday 3 November, 22:06 UTC, in 6d 17h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 27 Oct, 22:06 UTC6h ago | – | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 23 Oct, 23:17 UTC4d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 4 days | 0 |
| Sat 17 Oct, 02:55 UTC11d ago | 4 | held half | 6.8 days | 0 |
| Tue 13 Oct, 05:26 UTC14d ago | 3 | held half | 3.9 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
Server details
Is Rusty Cage online, and how reliable is it?
Rusty Cage is up as you read this. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 5 hours ago. Of the past 7 full days it was running for 168 of 168 hours, or 100% of the time. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 13 September 2026.
Where is Rusty Cage located?
Rusty Cage gives its location as North America, using the NA tag. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 66.51.99.65:28035.
Which version of Rust does Rusty Cage run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is the version Rusty Cage runs. Joining needs the same protocol on your game; Steam handles the update.
Does Rusty Cage run smoothly?
It averaged 11 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 5. At its fullest it held 142,022 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At most it took 4,142 MB of memory. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Population
How busy is Rusty Cage?
On Rusty Cage, 5 players are in and 50 slots are the ceiling. Over the last week it averaged 0 players; the high point was 5. 03:00 UTC was the peak of the last 48 hours, with 4 players on average.
How does Rusty Cage rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put Rusty Cage at #4,915, top 22% of ranked servers, and #836 in North America. #252 is where it sits in the duo group.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on Rusty Cage?
Its recent wipes peaked at an average of 3 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 67% 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 Cage?
The record holds too few of Rusty Cage's wipes to confirm the schedule, so the tag drives the prediction. The wipe after this one is due Tuesday 3 November at 22:06 UTC. The world it runs now dates from 6 hours. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a week.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on Rusty Cage?
You will not find a gather rate in the name Rusty Cage. duo gives a group limit of 2 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser shows it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. Join only if you hold Rust's premium status. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does Rusty Cage run?
The map on Rusty Cage is procedural, size 3,000, seed 2013498811, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Tag guide
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Rusty Cage?
The Rust Charts lists that carry Rusty Cage are: Duo Rust servers, Modded Rust servers and Region: North America. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Premium ^q, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Duo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours.
What do the server tags on Rusty Cage mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival, in the standard Rust form; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts2 (Group limit): No team can exceed 2; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen every week; ^q (Premium): Join only if you hold Rust's premium status; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Listed as modded because plugins or settings differ from the base game; NA (North America): North America is where the server browser lists it — that's the set of tags Rusty Cage publishes for the server browser. 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.
Join details
How do I join Rusty Cage?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 66.51.99.65:28035. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. Join only if you hold Rust's premium status. Head to https://rusty-cage.tebex.store/ for its website.
