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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 3% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 298, 2 hours in, with 73 in the queue.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:40 UTC FW
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 298 players at their busiest. The latest wipe peaked 2 hours after it, with a queue of 73 more.
Once a month is all [EA] Facepunch 2 wipes, together with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. The world you are playing on was built 26 days 4 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The playrust.com hostname [EA] Facepunch 2 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [EA] Facepunch 2 fits: Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [EA] Facepunch 2 makes public: official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp300 (Max players): The slot count is 300; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players; sc3 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
[EA] Facepunch 2 is carrying 22 players at the moment, with 300 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 25 players; the peak was 51. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 10:00 UTC, averaging 39 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EA] Facepunch 2 sits at #585, inside the top 3% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [EA] Facepunch 2 states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it in the Official tab in game. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 334048073, generated by the game, runs on [EA] Facepunch 2. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
There is no region from [EA] Facepunch 2. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 103.194.164.43:28015 is its address.
Server fps averaged 155 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 119. Entity count reached 182,190: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 7,104 MB of memory was used. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
The setup on [EA] Facepunch 2 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
At the time of this update, [EA] Facepunch 2 is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 15 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 103.194.164.43:28015.
