Premium servers in Rust have gone live for all regions on March 13/14, 2025, depending on your region, a week after the month's force wipe. The title's executive producer, Alistair McFarlane, has provided detailed insights into what players can expect from this new feature and why it will be introduced.This article takes a look at Premium servers in Rust and what players can expect from them.Release date and time for premium servers in RustThe premium servers in Rust has gone live for all regions on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 11 am PT/ 7 pm ET/ 12:30 am IST (next day). Players can expect a short downtime as Facepunch Studios incorporates these servers into the game alongside other changes.Here's a list of the release dates and times as to when premium servers debuted in Rust.Time ZoneDate and TimePacific Time (PT)March 13, 2025, at 11 amMountain Time (MT)March 13, 2025, at 12 pmCentral Time (CT)March 13, 2025, at 1 pmEastern Time (ET)March 13, 2025, at 2 pmGreenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC)March 13, 2025, at 7 pmEastern European Time (EET)March 13, 2025, at 8 pmMoscow Standard Time (MSK)March 13, 2025, at 10 pmIndian Standard Time (IST)March 14, 2025, at 12:30 amChina Standard Time (CST)March 14, 2025, at 3 amJapan Standard Time (JST)March 14, 2025, at 4 amAustralian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)March 14, 2025, at 6 amNew Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT)March 14, 2025, at 8 pmCheck out — Rust Primitive update: Everything we knowHow to join premium servers in RustAs the name suggests, Rust's premium servers feature a paywall that players must pass to access them.According to Alistair McFarlane, the gateway price to join a premium server in Rust is 15 USD (or the equivalent value in a player's local currency).However, players don't need to pay money up front to gain access to the premium servers. Those who have a Rust Steam inventory worth over 15 USD (or the equivalent value in a player's local currency) will directly gain access to them.Here's a step-by-step guide to joining premium servers in the game:Launch Steam and log in with your credentials.Boot up Rust. Once everything's loaded up, click on the 'Play' button.Head to the 'Official' tab on the left side of your screen.Here, you can select any official premium server that will go live with the debut of the March update.According to Alistair McFarlane, the introduction of premium servers is an experiment to combat cheaters in the game. To that end, he stated:"This is experimental in being a gate against cheat users. It's not going stop every cheat users, but based on data we have now and behaviour patterns, it'll stop over 98%."Features of Premium servers in RustAs per the official blog from Facepunch Studios, players and server hosts who opt in for premium servers will get access to the following features:Premium Servers will only be visible if your account meets the $15 threshold.Premium Servers will show a Premium (and clickable) Tag to provide details about eligibility.This won’t stop every cheat user, but it’s an extra layer of friction against disposable cheat accounts.Server owners can opt-in by enabling the following convar: "server.premium 1"The $15 threshold may change over time, and we may introduce additional factors to refine premium status.Depending on Steam traffic, brand new purchases may take up to 20 minutes to reflect onto the Premium Server authorization.You can manually refresh or check your premium status by going to the server listings, clicking the premium server tag and clicking the refresh icon.If you have premium status, it'll display on your avatar on the menu menuCheck out: Rust Bellum Twitch Drops (Round 40): Duration, all rewards, and how to unlockAll available Premium servers in RustMonthly wipesEU FacepunchEU Premium 1 - 79.137.98.213:28015EU Premium 2 - 79.137.98.146:28015EU Premium Small 1 - 79.137.98.146:28020EU Premium 3 - 79.137.98.117:28015EU Premium 4 - 79.137.98.117:28020EU East FacepunchEU East Premium 1 - 57.128.211.55:28015EU East Premium 2 - 57.128.211.53:28015EU East Premium Small 1 - 57.128.211.53:28020EU East Premium 3 - 57.128.211.54:28015EU East Premium 4 - 57.128.211.54:28020US West FacepunchUS West Premium 1 - 148.113.198.88:28015US West Premium 2 - 148.113.198.86:28015US West Premium Small 1 148.113.198.86:28020US West Premium 3 - 148.113.198.87:28015US West Premium 4 - 148.113.198.87:28020US East FacepunchUS East Premium 1 - 40.160.19.6:28015US East Premium 2 - 40.160.19.218:28015US East Premium Small 1 - 40.160.19.218:28020US East Premium 3 - 40.160.19.217:28015US East Premium 4 - 40.160.19.217:28020Weekly Map WipesUS Community Officialsus-medium.rusticated.com:28010us.premium.rplayrust.commain.us-premium.moose.ggEU Community Officialseu-medium.rusticated.com:28010eupremium.rustopia.ggpremium.rustspain.com:28015AU/Asia Community Officialsaupremium.rustafied.compremium.rustoria.asiaThat's everything that you need to know about joining the premium servers in Rust. 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