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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 5% 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 19, 46 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:41 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 19 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 46 hours after it.
Once a month is all [US] Facepunch Small 2 wipes, together with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. This world dates from 27 days. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Most likely one operator runs them: [US] Facepunch Small 2 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [US] Facepunch Small 2 are Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. Under the filters Region: North America; 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; Boxes: Official only it appears on the server list.
These are the tags [US] Facepunch Small 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): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp300 (Max players): Slots: 300; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships; ^t (Tutorial on): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust. 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 Small 2 is carrying 7 players at the moment, with 300 slots in total. Peak over the past week: 21. Average: 8 players. Peak hour over 48 hours: 15:00 UTC, at 16 players on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, [US] Facepunch Small 2 sits at #1,073, inside the top 5% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [US] Facepunch Small 2. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The in-game Official tab carries it. By its own label it is vanilla: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
[US] Facepunch Small 2 runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,750, seed 4025495. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
There is no region tag on [US] Facepunch Small 2; its name still points to North America. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 148.113.198.8:28015.
The average server fps was 276 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 239. Entity count reached 92,761: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 4,415 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US] Facepunch Small 2 runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, [US] Facepunch Small 2 is live. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. 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 148.113.198.8:28015.
