Server profile
The Citadel
Offline, with 1 of 1 players on; ranked #13,786 of every public Rust server, the top 62%. It last wiped 22d ago.
Offline 50.82.0.135:28015 checked 22d 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. 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 62% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
The wipe cycle
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
If you like this one
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The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
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- Rustoria.co - EU Main51/250
- Rustafied.com - EU Friday54/100
- Rustoria.co - EU East Medium161/200
The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe cycle
When does The Citadel wipe, and how often?
The record of The Citadel's wipes is too thin yet to show its rhythm. The monthly force wipe comes to all Rust servers next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are playing on now was made 22 days 17 hours ago.
Server details
What Rust version is live on The Citadel?
The Rust build is network protocol 2634 and build 166652, running on Windows, for The Citadel. You can only join if your game is on the same protocol; Steam handles that update.
Has The Citadel stayed online, and is it up now?
Offline at the moment, The Citadel was last seen 22 days 16 hours ago. The last 7 full days gave 0 of 168 hours up, or 0% of the time. Rust Insights first logged this server on 6 October 2026.
What location is listed for The Citadel?
There is no region published for The Citadel. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. You can reach it at 50.82.0.135:28015.
Server tags
What is meant by each tag on The Citadel?
The tags gmvanilla (Game mode): This server runs vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): 1 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams cap at 8; v2634 (Protocol): To join you need the same version; protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): It runs game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set are what The Citadel publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. 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.
Which Rust Insights filters and lists feature The Citadel?
The Rust Insights lists that carry The Citadel are Best Rust community servers. On the server list, the filters that surface it are Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
What does the population of The Citadel look like?
The Citadel was last seen 22 days 16 hours ago and is offline right now.
How does The Citadel compare with other Rust servers in the ranking?
On player hours for the last seven days, The Citadel sits at #13,786, inside the top 62% of ranked servers.
Map and rules
How is The Citadel configured, and what rules apply?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Citadel. No group limit is set, so the game's default of 8 players applies. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Community is the browser category it appears in. The server has Valve's VAC anti-cheat switched on.
What is the map on The Citadel?
A procedural map, generated by the game, is what The Citadel runs.
How to join
What is the way to join The Citadel?
Type client.connect 50.82.0.135:28015 into the console, which you open with F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job by opening Rust through Steam.