Server profile
Cheese
Online, with 0 of 3 players on; ranked #15,344 of every public Rust server, the top 69%. It last wiped 16d ago.
Online 157.85.89.204:24358 checked 12m ago
The crowd
Players
Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.
Source: every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.
Note: daily average and peak, UTC.
Under the hood
Server performance
Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.
Note: 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.
The standings
Rank
Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.
Note: Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
The wipe cycle
Wipe schedule
Too few wipes seen yet.
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe
Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC16d ago | 3+1 queue | – | running | 2 |
Note: 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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The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe days
On Cheese, what happens on wipe day?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 3 players on average. 0 hours after the latest wipe came the peak, and a further 1 stood in the queue.
When does Cheese wipe, and how often?
The record of Cheese's wipes is too thin yet to show its rhythm. A force wipe falls on every Rust server once a month, and the next one is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 16 days 20 hours have passed since its current world was created.
Server details
Does Cheese hold a steady frame rate?
Server fps averaged 235 over 48 hours; the lowest reading was 190. The world held a peak of 30,232 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 2,963 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are what players experience as lag.
On what version does Cheese currently run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Cheese runs. Joining needs your game on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.
How reliable is Cheese, and is it up at the moment?
Right now Cheese is up and running. Going by the uptime figure it gives, its last restart was around 2 days 6 hours ago. The last 7 full days gave 168 of 168 hours up, or 100% of the time. On 12 October 2026 is when Rust Insights first saw it.
Where does Cheese run from?
A region is not published by Cheese. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. Connect through 157.85.89.204:24358.
Tags
What is meant by each tag on Cheese?
These tags come from Cheese and are read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp3 (Max players): The slot count is 3; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams cap at 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as it does by default; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty. The tags also hold the current player count, the queue and when the world was created, all of which appear at the top of this page.
On which Rust Insights lists does Cheese appear?
Cheese appears among the following Rust Insights lists: Best Rust community servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Population history
How many players are on Cheese right now, and how does that number move?
Cheese shows 0 players at the moment, against 3 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players puts the last week in context.
How does Cheese compare with other Rust servers in the ranking?
The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts Cheese at #15,344, among the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Rules and settings
What settings and rules apply on Cheese?
Nothing about gather rate is given in the name of Cheese. The default of 8 players per group is what applies here. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. PvP and raiding are both enabled. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat: VAC, from Valve, is on.
Which map is live on Cheese?
Cheese runs a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 50000, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.
How to join
How do you connect to Cheese?
To connect, start Rust and enter client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358 in the console (F1). Or join through Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust via Steam and connects you.