Winter Rust
72.71.228.208:28015 checked 8m 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
Population
Winter Rust ranking: what position does it hold?
Rank #15,974 over the last seven days in player hours: Winter Rust, inside the top 71% of ranked servers.
What is the player count on Winter Rust?
Winter Rust: 0 players now, with 200 slots available. Averaged across the last seven days: 0 players.
Tags and Filters
Winter Rust tags: what do they indicate?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags Winter Rust publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp200 (Max players): Slots: 200; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are limited to 8, the default; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join; cs167584 (Build): Game build number: 167584; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $r? (Region code): Region code missing; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it appears under Modded. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue and when its world was made, taken from the tags.
Where does Winter Rust appear in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include Winter Rust are: Best modded Rust servers. On the server list, the filters that bring it up are: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server Overview
Winter Rust Rust version: which one?
The combination is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584 on Linux for Winter Rust. Steam updates your game automatically, but it needs to match the protocol to join.
Is the performance on Winter Rust smooth?
For the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 229, never dropping below 215. The entity count reached 103,416, covering buildings, deployables and all other world objects. The maximum memory used was 3,731 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
What is the uptime and reliability of Winter Rust?
Winter Rust is currently online. The uptime it reports shows a restart roughly 14 hours ago. Over the past 7 full days, it was online 168 of 168 hours, 100% of the time. On 25 September 2026, BestRustServers.xyz saw it for the first time.
What is the location of Winter Rust?
There is no region published by Winter Rust. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. 72.71.228.208:28015 is its address.
Rules and Settings
What is the map on Winter Rust?
A procedural map of size 4,250 and seed 1 is what Winter Rust runs, generated by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
What rules and configuration does Winter Rust have?
A gather rate is not given in the name Winter Rust. No group limit is stated; the game's default of 8 players applies. Listed as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, so it appears under Modded. Plugin count: Oxide. VAC: off.
Wipe Cycle
Winter Rust wipe schedule: what does it show?
Too few wipes are on record for Winter Rust to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, takes every Rust server with it. The world in play was made 10 days 15 hours.
What happens on wipe day on Winter Rust?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
Connect
Winter Rust joining: how is it done?
Enter client.connect 72.71.228.208:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust), or use Launch Rust on this page to open Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust- Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp200- Max players Slots: 200.
ts8- Group limit Teams are limited to 8, the default.
v2634- Protocol Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join.
cs167584- Build Game build number: 167584.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$r?- Region code Region code missing.
Mods and access
^o- Oxide Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod).
^z- Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it appears under Modded.
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.