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Observer Island

Offline, with 0 of 500 players on; ranked #8,315 of every public Rust server, the top 37%. It last wiped 4d ago.

Filed under
Launch Rust and join
0/ 500 players now 0% full
17-day averagepeak 1
#8,315ranktop 37%
4d agolast wipeno schedule published
–next wipeno rhythm it keeps

The crowd

Players

Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.

No hourly history yet.

Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.

Under the hood

Server performance

Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k19 Oct21 Oct23 Oct25 Oct27 Oct29 Oct

Note: Top 37% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

No rhythm it keeps.

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

1.5 days usual gap between real wipes
0% on rhythm of its recent wipes
1 wipe-day peak players, last three wipes
100% crowd held of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe

Sun 25 OctSat 24 OctThu 22 Oct
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

The record

Wipes

Every wipe we saw, newest first.

WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 25 Oct, 14:52 UTC4d ago 1 – running 1
Sat 24 Oct, 16:41 UTC4d ago 1 – 0.9 days 1
Thu 22 Oct, 12:36 UTC7d ago 1 held half 2.2 days 1

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

What should you expect on wipe day at Observer Island?

The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 1 players. 1 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd on the server reached its peak. Half the peak held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

When does Observer Island wipe, and how often?

Observer Island wipes at times that vary, so its next wipe cannot be predicted. A force wipe falls on every Rust server once a month, and the next one is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 4 days have passed since its current world was created.

About the server

On what version does Observer Island currently run?

The Rust build is network protocol 2635 and build 168909, running on Windows, for Observer Island. Joining needs your game on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Has Observer Island stayed online, and is it up now?

Offline at the moment, Observer Island was last seen 3 days 23 hours ago. It spent 13 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours up, 8% of the time. The first record Rust Insights has of it is 19 October 2026.

What location is listed for Observer Island?

No region is published by Observer Island. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. Connect through 62.118.66.17:28015.

Lists and tags

What is meant by each tag on Observer Island?

When the game's server browser reads Observer Island, it finds these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: 8 per team at most; v2635 (Protocol): Matching versions are required, and the protocol is 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as it does by default; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will find the present player count, the queue and the world's creation time among the tags, and they are displayed at the top of this page.

Where does Observer Island turn up among the Rust Insights lists and filters?

The Rust Insights lists that carry Observer Island 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; Last wipe: In the last week.

Population history

What does the population of Observer Island look like?

Observer Island is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 3 days 23 hours ago. Over the past week it peaked at 1 and averaged 1 players.

In the ranking of Rust servers, where does Observer Island place?

On player hours for the last seven days, Observer Island sits at #8,315, inside the top 37% of ranked servers.

Rules and settings

How is Observer Island configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of Observer Island. Groups can reach 8 players, which is the default in the game. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. Community is the browser category it appears in. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is active.

How to join

How do you connect to Observer Island?

To connect, start Rust and enter client.connect 62.118.66.17:28015 in the console (F1). Or join through Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust via Steam and connects you.

The small print

Server tags

What each one means.

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard Rust plays.
mp500
Max players 500 slots in total.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: 8 per team at most.
v2635
Protocol Matching versions are required, and the protocol is 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet handles the network layer, as it does by default.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Note: 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.