Rust servers are up.

This release answers one question: whether the public Rust server list is running normally now. The verdict above is our own reading of the list, refreshed every five minutes, set against the figure this hour normally returns.

How we count

We read the full public list and count servers that answer and players attached to them. Figures are rounded. We compare the count with the median for the same hour over the past week. At 85% of that median or more, the list is up; below half, we publish an outage. Between the two, the verdict reads as degraded. The time under the verdict is when the list was last read; past twenty-five minutes, this page states that its reading is behind rather than guessing.

What a reading shows

The count of 11,883 servers and 96,258 players covers the whole public list. That list runs to thousands of servers, most of them quiet; a drop in total players can come from one large server restarting. Force wipe day moves both figures, because servers restart one by one after the update. The 48-hour charts show the same count and the player total at five-minute intervals, so a normal overnight dip and an outage read differently.

The biggest servers

Large servers are listed and measured on the same pass as the rest. When one of the ten largest by player count is unreadable, we name it and show the time it was last seen, on its page in the server directory. A single missing server is not an outage; the verdict covers the list.

If your game shows no servers

When this page reports the list as up and your browser is empty, the fault lies between you and Steam. Restart Steam and Rust; the in-game list comes from Steam. Clear the filters in the browser. Check Steam's status. On force wipe day, update Rust first. If one server is missing, its page records when it was last seen.