Periodic table of Rust servers · 11,826 samples on the bench
Rust Data Lab measures every public Rust server: live players, wipes and settings, refreshed every five minutes. Pick a question, compare the numbers, see what holds.
Live · every 5 min 91,935 players now 167 fresh wipes
The 36 busiest servers on the lists below, numbered by players on them this minute: element 1 is the busiest. The mass is the players now, the line under it how full the server is, the colour its group. Browse all 11,826 servers →
Conclusion Yes. Over the last day the count swung by 66%, from a low of 33,256 at 05:00 UTC to a peak of 98,991 at 18:00 UTC; across the last week the busiest hour is 17:00 UTC.
Four instruments on the bench, read every five minutes.
The five fullest official, modded and PvE servers, by players on them this minute. Every row links to its full list.
From 1.5x to 10x and beyond: the fullest servers at each rate, so you can pick how fast you want to build.
Every public Rust server in Steam's server list is sampled on a five-minute refresh: current players, queue size, wipe time and the settings the server reports, including map, gather rate and group limit. Each server also carries a ranking built from that history. If a field is blank, the server did not report it.
Counts are never more than five minutes old, because that is the refresh interval on the Steam server list. Wipes are recorded within roughly the same window once a server starts a new world. For anything longer-term, read the population history rather than a single count.
Rust Data Lab is an independent project, with no link to Facepunch, any hosting company or any server owner. Everything on the site comes from public data: Steam's server list plus direct queries to the servers. Nothing is sponsored into the numbers.
Open the server browser and narrow by region, wipe schedule, group limit or gather rate. Sort by player count for a busy server or by next wipe to catch a fresh start. If you want a shortcut, the live player count page shows where the population sits right now.