Rust player count
players on 11,488 public Rust servers right now, and 23 more waiting in queues
Last updated · 3m 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. Zongarust keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
Everyone on a public Rust server right now, counted from what each server reports every five minutes. Below the history, the same players split by modded or not, game mode, group size, gather rate, region and how fresh the wipe is. The busiest hour of the day usually has more than twice the players of the quietest, and the European evening is the peak.
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 Zongarust'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 38,041 players on 11,488 servers.
Modded or not
rates, rules and pluginsOxide runs on 7,377 servers with 22,152 players, Carbon on 1,859 with 5,060. 2,597 servers with 21,867 players call themselves vanilla.
By game mode
what each server is forPremium-only servers (287, with 3,603 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 →Questions
How many people play Rust right now?
The number at the top of this page is every player on a public Rust server, refreshed every five minutes, and it swings a lot through the day. The busiest hour usually has more than twice the players of the quietest.
Why is this lower than Steam's player count?
Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including people in menus, on loading screens and on servers that do not list themselves publicly. This page counts players on public servers only, which is also why it can split them by server type.
When is Rust busiest?
In the European evening. The chart of players by hour of day shows the busiest hour in UTC, averaged over the last week. Evening in Australia is late morning in the UK, and evening on the US east coast is after midnight in the UK.
Are more people on modded or vanilla servers?
Modded servers hold more players in total, largely because there are far more of them. The split above is live and changes as servers report.