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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 4% 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 1h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 28, 27 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:42 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 28 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 27 hours after it.
Nothing wipes [AE] Facepunch 2 but the force wipe, once a month. 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 27 days 23 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [AE] Facepunch 2 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [AE] Facepunch 2 is listed under Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under 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; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [AE] 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): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp350 (Max players): The slot count is 350; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^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; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 15 players on [AE] Facepunch 2, out of 350 slots. The seven-day average is 9 players, with a peak of 26. Between now and 48 hours back, 18:00 UTC drew the most players, 16 on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, [AE] Facepunch 2 sits at #984, inside the top 4% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [AE] Facepunch 2 states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The in-game Official tab carries it. Its self-description 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 1120603257, generated by the game, runs on [AE] Facepunch 2. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region is published by [AE] Facepunch 2. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 185.179.203.164:28015.
It never went below 75 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 122. Entity count reached 141,366: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 5,315 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 [AE] Facepunch 2 runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, [AE] Facepunch 2 is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% 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 185.179.203.164:28015.
