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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 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 28, 11 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 28 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 11 hours after it.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [US East] Facepunch 5 takes. 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 26 days 4 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
The playrust.com hostname [US East] Facepunch 5 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [US East] Facepunch 5 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only it appears on the server list.
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): 350 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; sc2 (Custom tag): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it: that is the tag list [US East] Facepunch 5 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.
[US East] Facepunch 5 is carrying 14 players at the moment, with 350 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 11 players; the peak was 21. Peak hour over 48 hours: 01:00 UTC, at 15 players on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [US East] Facepunch 5 is #886, placing it in the top 4% of ranked servers.
The name [US East] Facepunch 5 carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The in-game Official tab carries it. By its own label it 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 1351983540, generated by the game, runs on [US East] Facepunch 5. 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 5 points to North America. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 40.160.19.12:28015.
It never went below 221 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 231. It supported up to 140,353 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 6,194 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
[US East] Facepunch 5 operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, [US East] Facepunch 5 is live. About 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% 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 40.160.19.12:28015.
