Find a server
There are two ways in, and they answer different questions. No sign-in needed for either.
- Wiping soon — what can I join tonight? Every server wiping next, soonest first.
- Servers — show me everything. The whole directory, searchable and sortable.
https://app.cerebrust.xyz/wipeshttps://app.cerebrust.xyz/serversWiping soon
Section titled “Wiping soon”A fresh wipe is the best time to join a Rust server: everyone starts from nothing, the map is new, and you are not walking into somebody’s month-old compound with a rock.
Wiping soon is the list of servers about to do exactly that, grouped by evening — Today, Tomorrow, then by weekday — with the time shown in your timezone, not the server’s. Pick how far ahead to look (3 hours through to a week) and the count on each button tells you how many servers are in that window before you click it.
Has players on it hides the empty ones. A fresh wipe on a server nobody joins is just an empty server.
The directory
Section titled “The directory”What each row tells you
Section titled “What each row tells you”| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| Server | Name, country flag, connect address, and its feature badges |
| Players | Who is on right now, out of the server’s slots |
| Wipe | How long ago the current wipe started |
| Next wipe (est) | When we expect it to wipe next |
| Last seen | When CerebRUST last heard from the server |
Click any of Players, Wipe or Next wipe (est) to sort by it. Servers running the CerebRUST plugin stay pinned at the top of the list whichever way you sort — they are the ones we have real data for. Search matches the server name or its connect address.
The list shows 50 servers a page. Sorting and searching cover every server we track, not just the page in front of you, and your view is kept in the address bar — so a link to “page 3 of servers wiping soonest” opens exactly that for whoever you send it to.
On a phone the last three columns fold into a single line under the server name rather than disappearing.
How fresh the player counts are
Section titled “How fresh the player counts are”The count is the last one we actually measured, not an average or a five-minute peak — and how often we measure depends on how busy a server is. A server with 100+ players is re-checked about every 15 seconds; quieter ones every one to five minutes; ones that have stopped answering, every ten.
That is deliberate: a full server’s count swings minute to minute and is what you are deciding on, while an empty one at 3am is not going to surprise anyone. Servers running the CerebRUST plugin report their own count directly, every few seconds.
About “Next wipe (est)”
Section titled “About “Next wipe (est)””It is an estimate, and the column says so.
For a server running the plugin, the date comes from the wipe schedule its owner configured in CerebRUST — the same one their server counts down to in chat. That is as close to authoritative as this gets.
For every other server, we work it out from two things: what its description claims about its wipe schedule, and when we have actually watched it wipe. Those predictions carry a dotted underline; hover for the exact time and where the guess came from.
Where a schedule cannot be worked out at all — no stated cadence, or a “every two weeks” with no observed wipe to tell us which fortnight — the column shows a dash. We would rather show nothing than a date you plan an evening around and find wrong.
Two things are true of every prediction here:
- Facepunch’s force wipe counts. The first Thursday of each month, 7pm UK, wipes essentially everything. A server that wipes more often than monthly gets whichever comes first.
- Owners change their minds. A schedule in a description can be months out of date, and nothing obliges a server to keep it. Treat the dotted-underline dates as a strong hint, not a promise.
Badges
Section titled “Badges”The chips beside a server name summarise how it plays: vanilla or its gather rate, max group size, and how often it wipes. Same rule as the wipe date — a dotted underline means we read it off the server’s own description rather than being told by its owner.
Getting on this list
Section titled “Getting on this list”Servers running the CerebRUST plugin appear automatically, from the first time they report in. Larger community servers are also picked up from Steam’s public server list, which is where most of the directory comes from. Those listings are limited to what a server broadcasts publicly: player count, name, description and wipe time.