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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 7d 8h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 23, 47 hours in.
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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 23 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 47 hours after it.
Once a month is all [US] Facepunch Small 3 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. The world you are playing on was built 27 days 16 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The playrust.com hostname [US] Facepunch Small 3 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [US] Facepunch Small 3 is listed under Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
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): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp300 (Max players): Slots: 300; 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; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^t (Tutorial on): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it: that is the tag list [US] Facepunch Small 3 publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 5 players on [US] Facepunch Small 3, out of 300 slots. The seven-day average is 8 players, with a peak of 19. Peak hour over 48 hours: 21:00 UTC, at 13 players on average.
Player hours over seven days put [US] Facepunch Small 3 at #1,089, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.
The name [US] Facepunch Small 3 carries no gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. Its self-description is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
[US] Facepunch Small 3 runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,750, seed 719534390. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region tag is published, though the name of [US] Facepunch Small 3 points to North America. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 148.113.198.8:28020.
The average server fps was 277 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 223. Entity count reached 96,451: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 5,519 MB of memory was used. 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 3 runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
[US] Facepunch Small 3 is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 20 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% 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 148.113.198.8:28020.
