Premium servers in Rust: Release date and how to join

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.

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Release date and time for premium servers in Rust

The 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 Zone	Date and Time
Pacific Time (PT)	March 13, 2025, at 11 am
Mountain Time (MT)	March 13, 2025, at 12 pm
Central Time (CT)	March 13, 2025, at 1 pm
Eastern Time (ET)	March 13, 2025, at 2 pm
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC)	March 13, 2025, at 7 pm
Eastern European Time (EET)	March 13, 2025, at 8 pm
Moscow Standard Time (MSK)	March 13, 2025, at 10 pm
Indian Standard Time (IST)	March 14, 2025, at 12:30 am
China Standard Time (CST)	March 14, 2025, at 3 am
Japan Standard Time (JST)	March 14, 2025, at 4 am
Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)	March 14, 2025, at 6 am
New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT)	March 14, 2025, at 8 pm

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How to join premium servers in Rust

As 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:

1. Launch Steam and log in with your credentials.
2. Boot up Rust. Once everything's loaded up, click on the 'Play' button.
3. Head to the 'Official' tab on the left side of your screen.
4. 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%."

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Features of Premium servers in Rust

As 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 menu

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All available Premium servers in Rust

Monthly wipes

EU Facepunch

• EU Premium 1 - 79.137.98.213:28015
• EU Premium 2 - 79.137.98.146:28015
• EU Premium Small 1 - 79.137.98.146:28020
• EU Premium 3 - 79.137.98.117:28015
• EU Premium 4 - 79.137.98.117:28020

EU East Facepunch

• EU East Premium 1 - 57.128.211.55:28015
• EU East Premium 2 - 57.128.211.53:28015
• EU East Premium Small 1 - 57.128.211.53:28020
• EU East Premium 3 - 57.128.211.54:28015
• EU East Premium 4 - 57.128.211.54:28020

US West Facepunch

• US West Premium 1 - 148.113.198.88:28015
• US West Premium 2 - 148.113.198.86:28015
• US West Premium Small 1 148.113.198.86:28020
• US West Premium 3 - 148.113.198.87:28015
• US West Premium 4 - 148.113.198.87:28020

US East Facepunch

• US East Premium 1 - 40.160.19.6:28015
• US East Premium 2 - 40.160.19.218:28015
• US East Premium Small 1 - 40.160.19.218:28020
• US East Premium 3 - 40.160.19.217:28015
• US East Premium 4 - 40.160.19.217:28020

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Weekly Map Wipes

US Community Officials

• us-medium.rusticated.com:28010
• us.premium.rplayrust.com
• main.us-premium.moose.gg

EU Community Officials

• eu-medium.rusticated.com:28010
• eupremium.rustopia.gg
• premium.rustspain.com:28015

AU/Asia Community Officials

• aupremium.rustafied.com
• premium.rustoria.asia

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