Rust player count
93,834 players on 11,797 public Rust servers right now, and 844 more waiting in queues
Live · last updated · 9m ago · a new count every few minutes
Official or not
Rust's in-game Official tab against everything else| Group | Players | Share | Servers | 48 hours | vs 24h ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Officialthe in-game Official tab | 14,652 | 15.6% | 246 | -9% | |
| Non-officialcommunity and modded servers | 79,182 | 84.4% | 11,551 | -2% | |
| All players online | 93,834 | 100% | 11,797 |
Official servers are the ones in Rust's in-game Official tab: Facepunch's own and its partners', such as RustSpain. Rust Server Analytics keeps that list by hand, by hostname and address. Everything else is a community or modded server.
About this report
The live total is 93,834 players across 11,797 public servers, refreshed every five minutes at 27 Oct 2026, 16:25 UTC. This page reports the current count, the last 24 hours and the longer trend, then breaks the same population into segments: game mode, modded or vanilla, group size, gather rate, region, time since wipe and server concentration. Peak on record is 98,991, with 844 players queued.
Players across Rust · last 48 hours
hourly average · UTCPlayers across Rust · every day since 11 June
daily averageBefore 12 September the history is BattleMetrics' count; from then on it is Rust Server Analytics's own, leaving out the servers on the banlist.
When Rust is busiest
average over the last week · UTCBusiest 17:00 UTC, quietest 05:00 with 36,572 on average.
How the players split
Every server online is counted once in each breakdown, so each one adds up to the 93,834 players on 11,797 servers.
Modded or not
rates, rules and plugins- Modded65,46569.8%
- Community with plugins11,39412.1%
- Unmodded16,97518.1%
| Group | Players | Share | Servers | 48 hours | vs 24h ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moddedrates, kits or rules changed | 65,465 | 69.8% | 8,486 | -4% | |
| Community with pluginsruns Oxide or Carbon but calls itself unmodded | 11,394 | 12.1% | 993 | +8% | |
| Unmoddedno plugin framework at all | 16,975 | 18.1% | 2,318 | -7% | |
| All players online | 93,834 | 100% | 11,797 |
Oxide runs on 7,484 servers with 56,525 players, Carbon on 1,893 with 16,995. 2,663 servers with 46,226 players call themselves vanilla.
By game mode
what each server is for| Group | Players | Share | Servers | 48 hours | vs 24h ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survivalthe standard game: gather, build, raid | 74,683 | 79.6% | 9,180 | -4% | |
| PvEno fighting other players | 4,426 | 4.7% | 1,427 | -6% | |
| Minigames & battle royalearenas, Bedwars, parkour, battle royale | 4,126 | 4.4% | 180 | -2% | |
| Battlefieldfast PvP with kits and high rates | 3,636 | 3.9% | 144 | +12% | |
| Combat trainingaim and PvP practice, loot handed out | 3,529 | 3.8% | 83 | +3% | |
| Build & creativesandbox building, no gathering | 1,554 | 1.7% | 192 | +19% | |
| SoftcoreFacepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot | 973 | 1.0% | 235 | -5% | |
| Roleplaytowns, jobs and roleplay rules | 648 | 0.7% | 205 | -8% | |
| HardcoreFacepunch's hardest mode | 185 | 0.2% | 125 | +7% | |
| Primitiveno guns: bows, spears and melee | 74 | 0.1% | 26 | -15% | |
| All players online | 93,834 | 100% | 11,797 |
Premium-only servers (297, with 1,852 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 nowBusiest servers right now
players this minute · 24-hour trend| # | Server | Players | 24 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EU | Helli's Aimtrain | Facechecks/1v1/Ranked/HellisEU · 168.100.161.166:27017 | 2,168 / 2100 | |
| 2 | MIRAGE RUST | TUESDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 27.10EU · 80.242.59.180:35002 | 1,617 +37 / 1700 | |
| 3 | MIRAGE RUST | MONDAY 2x | VANILLA+ | Wipe 26.10EU · 80.242.59.29:35002 | 1,059 / 1900 | |
| 4 | RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars | AimTrain | Creative | Arena | FFAEU · 64.40.9.156:28015 | 1,021 / 950 | |
| 5 | Atlas - EU 2X Monthly | Vanilla+ | No BP WipesEU · 195.60.166.166:28015 | 1,009 / 1050 | |
| 6 | Atlas - EU 3x | No BPs | MondaysEU · 195.60.166.23:28015 | 963 / 950 | |
| 7 | Vital Rust - EU Monthly | 2x | Vanilla+ | No BP WipesEU · 168.100.161.198:28015 | 842 / 800 | |
| 8 | Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|EU · 208.103.169.221:28015 | 823 +27 / 850 | |
| 9 | Rustoria.co - EU MondaysEU · 46.105.94.250:28013 | 799 / 875 | |
| 10 | SURVIVORS.GG #2 [ 2x Vanilla ] WIPED 27.10– · 194.54.88.104:28015 | 792 +60 / 750 |
Questions
4 answered from the figures in this reportQ1How many people are playing Rust right now?
93,834 players are on public servers at the last refresh, 27 Oct 2026, 16:25 UTC. The count covers every listed server and is updated every five minutes. It typically rises through the European evening and falls overnight in UTC.
Q2Why does this differ from Steam's player count?
Steam counts all clients with Rust running, including menus, loading screens and servers that do not publish to the public list. This page counts players reported by public servers, so it is lower and can be split by server type.
Q3When is the Rust player count highest?
The daily peak usually falls in the European evening, when both European and North American players are active. The hourly chart shows the busiest hour in UTC, averaged over the last seven days. Weekend peaks are typically higher than weekdays.
Q4Do modded or vanilla servers have more players?
Modded servers hold the larger share of players, mostly because there are more of them. The live split on this page shows the current totals for each segment. Vanilla official servers still carry a significant population, listed under the official rankings.