Rust servers are up.

What you are looking at

This is a live reading of the public Rust server list, refreshed every five minutes. We take the number of servers and players we can see and compare it with the typical figure for this hour of the day, drawn from our own records. The verdict above is our simple test: if the count is at least 85% of the usual, we call it up; below half, we call it down; in between, we say it is mixed.

What the numbers show

11,863 servers and 95,518 players are visible in the latest sample. The chart below plots the same two series over the past 48 hours, against the typical range for each hour. Steady lines inside the band mean normal operation; a sudden drop across both lines points to a wider problem, while a fall on one line alone is more likely a single server restarting.

If your game shows nothing

When this page says servers are up but your browser is empty, the cause is usually Steam or your own setup:

1. Restart Steam and Rust. A stale Steam session can hide the whole list.
2. Clear any filters in the server browser; a region or tag set long ago can mask everything.
3. Check Steam's status page. When Steam's list is down, this page often shows a dip too.
4. On force wipe day, update Rust first: servers restart one by one for an hour or so.
5. Turn off any VPN or strict firewall that might block the UDP traffic the browser uses.

If only one server is missing, it is probably restarting or down; its page here shows when it was last seen.

The biggest servers

The ten largest servers by current player count are listed above. If all ten are reachable, the game itself is almost certainly fine. If several are missing, compare with the overall verdict: a widespread problem will show there first.

When the data is thin

Our reading is only as good as the list we can see. If Steam's list is partially down, our counts drop and the verdict may read 'mixed' when in fact the game is fine. We say so when the last refresh is more than 25 minutes old, rather than guessing.