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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 5% 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 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 32, 9 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 32 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 9 hours after it.
Once a month is all [US East] Facepunch 4 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 26 days 11 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [US East] Facepunch 4 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [US East] Facepunch 4 is listed under Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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; Boxes: Official only.
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): 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): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): 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): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it, which [US East] Facepunch 4 publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Live now: 6 players on [US East] Facepunch 4, out of 350 slots. The seven-day average is 8 players, with a peak of 21. Between now and 48 hours back, 01:00 UTC drew the most players, 14 on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [US East] Facepunch 4 is #1,050, placing it in the top 5% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [US East] Facepunch 4 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. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 4,500, seed 297650890: that is the procedural map the game generates for [US East] Facepunch 4. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
The name points to North America even though [US East] Facepunch 4 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 40.160.19.16:28015.
It never went below 228 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 281. Entity count reached 133,538: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 6,253 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
[US East] Facepunch 4 operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
[US East] Facepunch 4 is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 16 hours ago. 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 40.160.19.16:28015.
