Build and creative servers, live

Read the columns in this order: players, peak, then last wipe. A build server can show a healthy count and still wipe your work in an hour, because plenty of these run a fresh world every few hours. The last wipe column is the one that tells you whether your test build survives the evening.

The crowd behaves differently here too. On a normal Rust server the population falls away over days after a wipe; on build servers it tends to sag faster, because nobody is defending anything and there is nothing to lose by leaving. If you are testing with someone, agree a time rather than assuming they will still be on tonight.

Note that the search box matches names and addresses only. Typing EU returns servers with those two letters in the name, not every server hosted in Europe. For region, group limit and wipe schedule, use the full server browser.

Sorting by players answers one question: where is everyone building right now. Sorting by next wipe answers another, and it is often the more useful one, because on these servers a reset is not a setback, it is a clean sheet. Either way the figures are read straight from the server list and refreshed every five minutes, so a drop or a jump you see is real.

Plenty of servers on this list sit at zero. That is normal for build servers: they cost little to run, owners keep them up, and players cluster on the few with a reputation. No figure here is rounded up or padded.

When you have your layout settled, take it somewhere it can be tested under pressure. Vanilla servers and beginner-friendly servers both put your build against real raiders.