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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 6% 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 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 35 hours in.
The current map
Thursday 8 October 2026, 07:26 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 11:44 UTC
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 27 players at their busiest. 35 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 11.
Nothing wipes [US] Facepunch Staging but the force wipe, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 34 days 16 hours have passed since this world was generated. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
On Rust Live Stats, [US] Facepunch Staging is listed under Official Rust servers, live now, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [US] Facepunch Staging 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): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp250 (Max players): 250 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs169488 (Build): The game build is 169488; 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): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
[US] Facepunch Staging is carrying 7 players at the moment, with 250 slots in total. Peak over the past week: 12. Average: 5 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 23:00 UTC, averaging 8 players.
Player hours over seven days put [US] Facepunch Staging at #1,435, in the top 6% of all ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [US] Facepunch Staging. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. The in-game Official tab carries it. Vanilla is its own label: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,300 with seed 280505286, generated by the game, runs on [US] Facepunch Staging. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
There is no region tag on [US] Facepunch Staging; its name still points to North America. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. 148.113.198.13:28015 is its address.
The average server fps was 206 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 151. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 122,000 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,031 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
[US] Facepunch Staging operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169488. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, [US] Facepunch Staging is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 148.113.198.13:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
