Online 157.85.89.204:24358 checked 10m ago
Cheese
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 3 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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 12 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in, with 1 in the queue.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 03:21 UTC17d ago | 3+1 queue | – | running | 2 |
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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server details
Is Cheese online, and how reliable is it?
Online now, Cheese is up. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 2 days 13 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 12 October 2026.
Does Cheese run smoothly?
236 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 197. Up to 30,232 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. The memory ceiling was 2,963 MB. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is Cheese on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at Cheese. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is Cheese located?
There is no region published on Cheese. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 157.85.89.204:24358.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on Cheese mean?
gmrust (Game mode): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp3 (Max players): Slot count: 3; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer RakNet is in use; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one are the tags Cheese publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Cheese?
You will find Cheese on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Community servers, ranked live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on Cheese?
Size 2,500, seed 50000: that is the procedural map Cheese runs, generated by the game. The map repeats with that size and seed, and you can view it on RustMaps from here.
What are the rules and settings on Cheese?
Nothing in the name of Cheese states a gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players here. Community is its server browser category. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Player counts
How full is Cheese right now?
Out of 3 slots, 0 are taken on Cheese at this moment. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Where does Cheese sit in the rankings?
The last seven days put Cheese at #15,341 on player hours: top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on Cheese?
To tell its rhythm, more of Cheese's wipes need to be on record. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 17 days 3 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on Cheese?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 3 players on average. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe, and 1 more waited in the queue.
Connect
How do I join Cheese?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 157.85.89.204:24358. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp3
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
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.