Cheese
157.85.89.204:24358 checked 12m 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.
- wipe-day peak
- 3 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 3, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC 2d ago | 3 +1 queue | – | 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.
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Population
Cheese ranking: what position does it hold?
In the top 28% of all ranked servers, Cheese is #6,187 on player hours for the last seven days.
Is Cheese busy?
Cheese: 0 players now, with 3 slots available. Averaged across the last seven days: 1 players, peaking at 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 18:00 UTC, when the average player count was 3.
Server Tags
Cheese tags: what do they indicate?
The game's server browser reads these tags from Cheese: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp3 (Max players): Slots: 3; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are limited to 8, the default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): Running build 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use; $r? (Region code): Region code missing. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue and when its world was made, taken from the tags.
Which lists and filters on BestRustServers.xyz contain Cheese?
These BestRustServers.xyz lists include Cheese: Rust community servers, ranked. 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.
Server Information
What Rust version is Cheese on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Linux is what Cheese uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but it needs to match the protocol to join.
How smooth is the performance on Cheese?
For the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 236, never dropping below 218. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world accounted for up to 30,227 entities. The maximum memory used was 3,313 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
How reliable is Cheese and is it online?
The server is online: Cheese. The uptime it reports shows a restart roughly 2 days 1 hours ago. 24 of 24 hours online over the last 1 full day, giving an uptime of 100%. On 12 October 2026, BestRustServers.xyz saw it for the first time.
Where can Cheese be found?
No region is published by Cheese. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. You can reach it at 157.85.89.204:24358.
Settings & Map
Cheese map: which one is it?
On Cheese, the map is procedural, size 2,500 with seed 50000, generated by the game. The map can be viewed on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed fix it.
Cheese rules and settings: what are they?
A gather rate is not given in the name Cheese. No group limit is stated; the game's default of 8 players applies. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Player combat and raiding are enabled. It is a community server, found under Community. The server has VAC on.
Wipe Information
When does Cheese wipe?
The record holds too few wipes for Cheese to show a rhythm. A force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, takes every Rust server with it. Its world dates from 2 days 4 hours.
What happens on wipe day on Cheese?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 3 players. On the latest wipe the crowd peaked 0 hours in, with a queue of 1 beyond it.
Connect
How can I connect to Cheese?
Enter client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358 in the console (F1 in Rust), or use Launch Rust on this page to open Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp3- Max players Slots: 3.
ts8- Group limit Teams are limited to 8, the default.
v2634- Protocol Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167398- Build Running build 167398.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use.
$r?- Region code Region code missing.
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.