Cheese
157.85.89.204:24358 checked 9m ago
Players
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 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 28% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC 1d ago | – | – | running | 2 |
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.
Similar servers
Quick answers
Player counts
How busy is Cheese?
0 of 3 slots on Cheese are filled right now. For the last seven days the mean was 1 players; the highest count was 3. Over the past 48 hours, the peak period was 18:00 UTC with an average of 3 players.
How does Cheese rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, Cheese ranks #6,184 worldwide and sits in the top 28% of all ranked servers.
Wipe times
What is the wipe schedule on Cheese?
Its rhythm is not yet clear from the wipes of Cheese on record. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when all Rust servers wipe. The map has been running for 47 hours.
Server
Is Cheese online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Cheese is up and online. The uptime it reports indicates a restart about 45 hours ago. 24 of 24 hours were online in the last 1 full day, 100% uptime. The earliest record When Is Wipe has is 12 October 2026.
Performance of Cheese: does it run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, average server fps was 236, and it never dropped below 218. Buildings, deployables and other world objects pushed the entity count as high as 30,227. Memory use reached 3,177 MB. Low fps together with an increasing entity count is what players call lag.
Which version of Rust does Cheese run?
On Cheese, the Rust version is network protocol 2634 and build 167398 and the OS is Linux. Steam updates your game, so the protocol matches when you join.
Where is Cheese located?
No region is published by Cheese. When Is Wipe shows the location a server claims; it does not look up the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 157.85.89.204:24358.
Tags, lists
Which When Is Wipe lists include Cheese? And filters?
These When Is Wipe lists include Cheese: Community Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
What do the server tags on Cheese mean?
These are the tags Cheese publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): This server runs standard Rust survival; mp3 (Max players): The server holds 3 players; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2634; a version mismatch blocks joining; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): A region code is not set for this server. At the top of this page you can see its current players, queue and world creation time, which are in the tags too.
Rules, map
What rules does Cheese enforce? And settings?
No gather rate appears in Cheese's name. The group limit is 8 players, the default. On this server, the mode is survival, standard survival: gathering, building, raiding. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. This is a community server, in the Community list. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, on.
Which map does Cheese run?
A procedural map, size 2,500 with seed 50000, is used by Cheese; the game generates it. The map is fixed by size and seed; view it on RustMaps from this page.
How to join
How do I join Cheese?
Press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358 in the console. You can also use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode This server runs standard Rust survival.
mp3- Max players The server holds 3 players.
ts8- Group limit Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default.
v2634- Protocol The server runs game protocol 2634; a version mismatch blocks joining.
cs167398- Build The game build is 167398.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game.
$r?- Region code A region code is not set for this server.
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.