Rust servers are up.

Player one, here is the answer

The verdict at the top is our own reading, not a guess. Every five minutes we pull the full public server list and count the players on it, then set today's number against what this hour usually looks like. That gap is the whole test.

• Up means the list holds at or above its usual level for this hour. Rust and Steam are serving players.
• Degraded means the count sits well below normal: a partial outage, a Steam wobble, or a big update pulling servers off the board one at a time.
• Down means the list has fallen to a fraction of its usual size. That is not a busy night; that is something broken.

Hover any point on the 48-hour charts to see the hourly count behind it. A dead server is reported as dead on its own page; here we only judge the whole board.

When the board is up but your browser is empty

If we show players online and your game shows nothing, the fault is between you and Steam:

1. Restart Steam, then Rust. The in-game list comes from Steam, and a stale login can serve an empty browser.
2. Clear the filters in the server browser. A region or tag set weeks ago can hide every server.
3. Check whether Steam itself is down. When its list goes out, every game's browser empties and our count usually sags too.
4. On force wipe day servers restart one by one for an hour or so. Update Rust, then look again.
5. Turn off your VPN and try a different network. Some firewalls block the traffic the browser uses.

If only one server is missing, that server is restarting or down. Its page here shows when it was last seen.

The biggest servers

The table below lists the top of the live leaderboard with each server's current count and its status. If a large server drops out and the rest hold steady, the problem is that server, not Rust. For the server as a whole rather than the field, try the status check, and keep an eye on the force wipe countdown before you blame the game.