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Rust player count, live

Q: How many people are playing Rust right now?

89,567 on public servers at the last refresh, 27 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC UTC. The count moves through the day: the busiest hour usually carries more than twice the quietest. Check the figure at the top for the current number.

Q: Why is this lower than the Steam player count?

Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including menus, loading screens and servers that do not list publicly. Rust Tracker counts players on public servers only. That is also why the split by server type and region can be shown.

Q: When is Rust busiest?

The European evening, in UTC. The by-hour chart averages the last seven days and marks the peak hour. Australian evening falls in the UK morning; US east coast evening falls after midnight UTC.

Q: Are more players on modded or vanilla servers?

Modded holds the larger total, mostly because there are far more modded servers. The split updates as servers report. Vanilla servers are fewer and carry more players each.

PAX89,567

players on 11,777 public Rust servers right now, and 942 more waiting in queues

Last updated 27 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC · 10m ago · a new count every few minutes

Peak, last 24 hours98,991at 18:00 UTC

Low, last 24 hours33,256at 05:00 UTC

vs this hour yesterday+0.0%hourly averages compared

Busiest hour, UTC17:0097,734 on average; quietest 05:00

Servers with players on3,904of 11,777 online

Highest daily peak145,095on 3 Oct, since 11 Jun

Official or not

Rust's in-game Official tab against everything else

GroupPlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago

Officialthe in-game Official tab

14,173

15.8%

247

+17%

Non-officialcommunity and modded servers

75,394

84.2%

11,530

-3%

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

Official servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Tracker keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.

Tracking, all servers accounted for. 89,567 players on 11,777 public Rust servers. 942 in queue. Peak today 98,991. Record 145,095. Last update 27 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC UTC.

Counts come from what each server reports every five minutes. Below: the last day, the last months, and how the same players split by game mode, modded or not, group size, gather rate, region and days since wipe. A small set of servers holds most of them.

Players across Rust · last 48 hours

UTC

Players across Rust · every day since 11 June

daily average

Before 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Tracker's own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.

Density boards

How the players split

Every server online is counted once in each breakdown, so each one adds up to the 89,567 players on 11,777 servers.

Modded or not

rates, rules and plugins

GroupPlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago

Moddedrates, kits or rules changed

61,907

69.1%

8,471

-3%

Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded

11,129

12.4%

993

+27%

Unmoddedno plugin framework at all

16,531

18.5%

2,313

-1%

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

Oxide runs on 7,469 servers with 52,979 players, Carbon on 1,891 with 16,816. 2,660 servers with 44,453 players call themselves vanilla.

By game mode

what each server is for

GroupPlayersShareServers48 hoursvs 24h ago

Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid

71,216

79.5%

9,167

+1%

PvEno fighting other players

4,271

4.8%

1,426

-6%

Minigames & battle royalearenas, Bedwars, parkour, battle royale

3,741

4.2%

182

-13%

Battlefieldfast PvP with kits and high rates

3,618

4.0%

144

+13%

Combat trainingaim and PvP practice, loot handed out

3,403

3.8%

-17%

Build & creativesandbox building, no gathering

1,563

1.7%

190

+35%

SoftcoreFacepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot

946

1.1%

232

-8%

Roleplaytowns, jobs and roleplay rules

568

0.6%

203

-4%

HardcoreFacepunch's hardest mode

172

0.2%

124

+2%

Primitiveno guns: bows, spears and melee

0.1%

-20%

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

Premium-only servers (296, with 1,728 players) are counted in their mode: premium decides who may join, not how the game plays.

By region

where the server says it is

GroupPlayersShareServers

Europe

52,107

58.2%

2,556

North America

6,826

7.6%

1,658

Asia

3,563

4.0%

417

South America

757

0.8%

153

Oceania

744

0.8%

183

Africa

<0.1%

Not published

25,550

28.5%

6,787

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

By gather rate

read from the server's name

GroupPlayersShareServers

703

0.8%

121

1.5x

771

0.9%

29,445

32.9%

1,521

7,584

8.5%

571

4,412

4.9%

445

10x

2,602

2.9%

326

Other, under 100x

1,154

1.3%

137

100x and more

2,484

2.8%

202

No rate in the name

40,412

45.1%

8,413

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

By group size

the team limit servers publish

GroupPlayersShareServers

Solo

2,175

2.4%

194

Duo

6,557

7.3%

369

Trio

8,406

9.4%

528

Quad

4,892

5.5%

614

5 to 7

4,154

4.6%

325

8, the game's default

15,928

17.8%

8,120

More than 8

40,426

45.1%

1,333

Not published

7,029

7.8%

294

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

By last wipe

how fresh the map is

GroupPlayersShareServers

In the last 24 hours

28,541

31.9%

864

1 to 3 days ago

24,737

27.6%

1,028

3 to 7 days ago

20,698

23.1%

2,197

1 to 2 weeks ago

4,893

5.5%

1,950

2 to 4 weeks ago

10,441

11.7%

5,232

Over 4 weeks ago

242

0.3%

490

Unknown

<0.1%

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

By wipe schedule

what servers publish

GroupPlayersShareServers

Weekly

44,714

49.9%

1,627

Every two weeks

8,954

10.0%

1,100

Monthly

22,663

25.3%

3,508

Not published

13,236

14.8%

5,542

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

By server size

players on each server now

on the 10 busiest12%

on the 100 busiest49%

servers hold half104

GroupPlayersShareServers

200 or more

45,419

50.7%

107

100 to 199

12,400

13.8%

50 to 99

11,047

12.3%

163

10 to 49

13,135

14.7%

639

1 to 9

7,566

8.4%

2,907

Empty

0.0%

7,873

All players online11,777 servers

89,567

100%

11,777

When Rust is busiest

average over the last week · UTC

Heaviest traffic

Busiest servers right now

all servers →

01COM

Callsign HLL017EU EU | Helli's Aimtrain | Facechecks/1v1/Ranked/Hellis

Players 2,053/2200
02MOD

Callsign MRG002EU MIRAGE RUST | TUESDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 27.10

Players 1,630/1700+79 Q
03MOD

Callsign MRG002EU MIRAGE RUST | MONDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 26.10

Players 1,132/1900
04MOD

Callsign ATL015EU Atlas - EU 2X Monthly | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes

Players 974/1000
05MOD

Callsign RST015EU RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars | AimTrain | Creative | Arena | FFA

Players 906/950
06MOD

Callsign ATL015EU Atlas - EU 3x | No BPs | Mondays

Players 857/550
07OFC

Callsign RST013EU Rustoria.co - EU Mondays

Players 832/850
08MOD

Callsign RMO017– [RU] RUST ROOM BUILD 2.0 by GJ | CREATIVE & SANDBOX

Players 830/786
09OFC

Callsign RST015EU Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|

Players 825/850+45 Q
10MOD

Callsign VTL015EU Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP Wipes

Players 767/800

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Questions

How many people are playing Rust right now?

89,567 on public servers at the last refresh, 27 Oct 2026, 15:30 UTC UTC. The count moves through the day: the busiest hour usually carries more than twice the quietest. Check the figure at the top for the current number.

Why is this lower than the Steam player count?

Steam counts everyone with Rust open, including menus, loading screens and servers that do not list publicly. Rust Tracker counts players on public servers only. That is also why the split by server type and region can be shown.

When is Rust busiest?

The European evening, in UTC. The by-hour chart averages the last seven days and marks the peak hour. Australian evening falls in the UK morning; US east coast evening falls after midnight UTC.

Are more players on modded or vanilla servers?

Modded holds the larger total, mostly because there are far more modded servers. The split updates as servers report. Vanilla servers are fewer and carry more players each.