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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 69% 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 6d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
The current map
Thursday 8 October 2026, 04:25 UTC
Wipe
Friday 25 September 2026, 04:27 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 11:59 UTC
Wipe
Tuesday 15 September 2026, 15:48 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 1 players at their busiest. 0 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 6.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Tech Test 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 35 days. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Tech Test and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch Tech Test is listed under EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. Under the filters Region: Europe; 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 [EU] Facepunch Tech Test 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): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp0 (Max players): 0 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs169619 (Build): Build: 169619; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^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): Start with Facepunch's tutorial here if you are new. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
At this moment, [EU] Facepunch Tech Test shows 0 players. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch Tech Test sits at #15,270, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [EU] Facepunch Tech Test states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The in-game Official tab carries it. Vanilla is its own label: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 4,500, seed 211649: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EU] Facepunch Tech Test. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Tech Test publishes no region tag. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 162.19.127.25:28015.
The average server fps was 240 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 240. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 120,000 entities. The highest memory usage was 4,178 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
[EU] Facepunch Tech Test operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169619. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, [EU] Facepunch Tech Test is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 22 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.
Enter client.connect 162.19.127.25:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
