Winter Rust
72.71.228.208:28015 checked 7m 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 25 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 71% 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.
- wipe-day peak
- 0 players, last three wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:44 UTC 10d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
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 Winter Rust?
0 of 200 slots on Winter Rust are filled right now. The past week gives an average of 0 players.
How does Winter Rust rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, Winter Rust ranks #15,983 worldwide and sits in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Wipe times
What does wipe day look like on Winter Rust?
Its recent wipes drew an average busiest crowd of 0 players. The crowd reaches its peak 0 hours after the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on Winter Rust?
Too few wipes are on record for Winter Rust to show its rhythm. The monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, wipes every Rust server. The map has been running for 10 days 11 hours.
Server
Is Winter Rust online, and how reliable is it?
Winter Rust is online at the moment. Based on reported uptime, the last restart was roughly 9 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, 100% uptime. When Is Wipe has tracked it since 25 September 2026.
Performance of Winter Rust: does it run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 229 server fps and a low of 215. At its peak it held 103,416 entities, which covers buildings, deployables and all other objects in the world. The peak memory usage was 3,731 MB. Low fps together with an increasing entity count is what players call lag.
Which version of Rust does Winter Rust run?
On Winter Rust, the Rust version is network protocol 2634 and build 167584 and the OS is Linux. Steam updates your game, so the protocol matches when you join.
Where is Winter Rust located?
There is no region published for Winter Rust. When Is Wipe shows the location a server claims; it does not look up the machine's actual location. 72.71.228.208:28015 is its address.
Lists and tags
Which When Is Wipe lists include Winter Rust? And filters?
Best modded Rust servers are the When Is Wipe lists that Winter Rust fits. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What do the server tags on Winter Rust mean?
These are the tags Winter Rust publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): This server runs standard Rust survival; mp200 (Max players): Capacity is 200 slots; 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; cs167584 (Build): Build 167584; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) is installed as the plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Modded category: the game is altered by plugins or settings. Also in the tags, and displayed at the top of this page, are its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
Rules, map
What rules does Winter Rust enforce? And settings?
Winter Rust's name makes no mention of a gather rate. With the default limit, groups are limited to 8 players. On this server, the mode is survival, standard survival: gathering, building, raiding. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. It is in the Modded section: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are used. VAC is off.
Which map does Winter Rust run?
Winter Rust runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1, generated by the game. The map is fixed by size and seed; view it on RustMaps from this page.
How to join
How do I join Winter Rust?
Press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 72.71.228.208:28015 in the console. You can also use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust- Game mode This server runs standard Rust survival.
mp200- Max players Capacity is 200 slots.
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.
cs167584- Build Build 167584.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game.
$r?- Region code No region code has been set.
Mods and access
^o- Oxide Oxide (uMod) is installed as the plugin framework.
^z- Modded Modded category: the game is altered by plugins or settings.
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.