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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 3% 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 5h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 27 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:43 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 38 players. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Once a month is all [AE] Facepunch 1 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 19 hours. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
The playrust.com hostname [AE] Facepunch 1 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [AE] Facepunch 1 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [AE] Facepunch 1 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; mp350 (Max players): Slots: 350; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^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): 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.
25 of [AE] Facepunch 1's 350 slots are filled right now. Averaged across seven days, 15 players; the peak was 36. Between now and 48 hours back, 18:00 UTC drew the most players, 26 on average.
Player hours over seven days put [AE] Facepunch 1 at #745, in the top 3% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [AE] Facepunch 1 states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is its own label: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1996265322, generated by the game, runs on [AE] Facepunch 1. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region is published by [AE] Facepunch 1. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. Connect to 185.179.203.165:28015.
Server fps averaged 114 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 90. Entity count reached 135,238: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 5,565 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [AE] Facepunch 1 runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[AE] Facepunch 1 is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 185.179.203.165:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
