Rust servers are up.

Reading the verdict

Rust Tracker reads the full public server list every five minutes. The verdict compares today's count against the average for this hour of the week, drawn from the 48 hours behind it. Three states:

• Online — 85% of normal or more. Servers are up.
• Degraded — between half and 85%. Somebody's list is short, or a region is out. Check before you blame your connection.
• Down — below half. Treat it as an outage across the board.

The timestamp under the verdict is UTC. Past 25 minutes without a fresh read, the board says it is holding on old data rather than guess. Twelve such points in a row usually trace a force wipe, when servers drop and return one by one. Scheduled wipes show in the wipe schedule.

When the game shows an empty browser

Servers confirmed up here, browser blank on your screen: the fault is between you and Steam. In order of how often it clears it:

1. Restart Steam, then Rust. The in-game list is Steam's, and a stale session returns nothing.
2. Clear your browser filters. A region or tag set weeks ago hides everything.
3. Check Steam's own status. When Steam is out, this board drops too.
4. On force wipe day, update Rust first — servers restart on the new build only.
5. Drop the VPN and try a plain connection. Strict firewalls and office networks block the browser's traffic.

One server missing, not all of them? That server is down, restarting or wiping. Its own page shows when it was last seen and what it was holding.

The biggest servers

Wipes take large servers offline for a few minutes at a time, and their player counts fall before their status follows. Compare a server's count against its own curve rather than the fleet's. The live list ranks every server by players right now.