Players now
Live- Full
- 0%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- 0
- Peak, 7 days
- –
0% full
Rank
top 69% · #1510 in NA
7-day average
peak –
Last wipe
no schedule published
Next wipe
no wipe seen yet
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes- 1 134/ 2000
- 2 47/ 200
- 3 26/ 200
- 4 27/ 200
- 5 13/ 100
- 6 13/ 200
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer
Is The Signal online, and how reliable is it?
The Signal is up and taking players now. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 7 days 12 hours ago. The last 7 full days show 99% uptime, with 167 hours up out of 168. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which version of Rust does The Signal run?
On Windows, The Signal runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240. Steam keeps your game updated, so it will be on the same protocol and able to join.
Where is The Signal located?
The Signal lists North America as its location, tagged NA. Rust Dashboard takes the location a server gives; the machine's real position is not checked. You'll connect at 104.192.227.51:28015.
Does The Signal run smoothly?
Server fps averaged 37 over the last 48 hours and never dropped below 17. The world held as many as 129,899 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest. It drew as much as 3,782 MB of memory at peak. A low fps figure and an entity count that keeps rising are what lag feels like to players.
Tags
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include The Signal?
You'll find The Signal on these themed lists at Rust Dashboard: North American Rust servers, Modded Rust servers, live now and Rust PvE servers. It appears under these filters when you browse the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Signal mean?
These are the tags The Signal publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game mode; mp30 (Max players): The server has 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2631 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2631, to get in; cs158240 (Build): This one runs game build 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^p (PvE): The danger comes from the world, not from other players, who do not fight each other; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings; the listing is Modded; NA (North America): North America is where the server browser puts it. At the top of this page you'll find the current players, the queue and the world's creation time, which the tags carry too.
Player counts
How busy is The Signal?
The Signal has 0 of its 30 slots filled at the moment. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
How does The Signal rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put The Signal at #15,338 overall and #1,510 in North America, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on The Signal?
The Signal has too few wipes on record yet for its rhythm to be seen. The monthly force wipe applies to every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 103 days 14 hours ago the current world was made.
Rules
What are the rules and settings on The Signal?
You will not find a gather rate in the name of The Signal. Groups hold up to 8 players, the default for the game. pve is the mode here, no PvP between players. Modded is its category in the browser, because plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are loaded. The anti-cheat from Valve, VAC, is active.
Which map does The Signal run?
A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1337 is what The Signal runs, generated by the game. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed. It gives its map the name Custom Map.
How to join
How do I join The Signal?
The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 104.192.227.51:28015 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you.
