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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 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 32, 26 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 32 players at their busiest. 26 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Once a month is all [US East] Facepunch 6 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. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
Most likely one operator runs them: [US East] Facepunch 6 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [US East] Facepunch 6 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only it appears on the server list.
The server browser reads 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp350 (Max players): 350 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 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): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it, which [US East] Facepunch 6 publishes. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
[US East] Facepunch 6 is carrying 7 players at the moment, with 350 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 10 players; the peak was 28. Between now and 48 hours back, 23:00 UTC drew the most players, 11 on average.
Player hours over seven days put [US East] Facepunch 6 at #928, in the top 4% of all ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [US East] Facepunch 6. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. By its own label it is vanilla: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
[US East] Facepunch 6 runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1547547456. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
No region tag is published, though the name of [US East] Facepunch 6 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 40.160.19.11:28015.
The average server fps was 233 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 219. It supported up to 148,664 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 6,087 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 [US East] Facepunch 6 runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, [US East] Facepunch 6 is live. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% 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 40.160.19.11:28015.
