Element card · group Community · atomic number 13,786, its rank
The Citadel
Offline 50.82.0.135:28015 checked 22d 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 62% 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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
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Quick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on The Citadel?
The map on The Citadel is procedural, made by the game.
What settings and rules apply on The Citadel?
Nothing in the name of The Citadel gives a gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Server facts
In what location does The Citadel sit?
Nothing about a region is published by The Citadel. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 50.82.0.135:28015 is the address it uses.
Which Rust version is The Citadel on?
On Windows, The Citadel is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How dependable is The Citadel for staying online?
Currently offline, The Citadel was last seen 22 days 8 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 0% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 6 October 2026.
Wipe days
When does The Citadel wipe, and how often?
Too few wipes are on record for The Citadel to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 22 days 10 hours ago the current world was made.
Tags, lists
Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Citadel?
gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): It has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set: that is the tag list The Citadel publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does The Citadel appear in?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include The Citadel are: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Population
How does The Citadel compare with other servers in the rankings?
Player hours over the last week put The Citadel at #13,786, inside the top 62% of ranked servers.
How many players does The Citadel have at the moment?
The Citadel is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 22 days 8 hours ago.
Getting on
How can you connect to The Citadel?
In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 50.82.0.135:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.