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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 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 34 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 38 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 34 hours in.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [US East] Facepunch 3 takes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 26 days 6 hours have passed since this world was generated. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [US East] Facepunch 3 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [US East] Facepunch 3 fits: 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
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; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; 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): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^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; sc3 (Custom tag): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it: that is the tag list [US East] Facepunch 3 publishes for the game's server browser. 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: 19 players on [US East] Facepunch 3, out of 400 slots. Peak over the past week: 26. Average: 13 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 01:00 UTC, averaging 20 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [US East] Facepunch 3 is #827, placing it in the top 4% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [US East] Facepunch 3. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You find it in the Official tab in game. Its self-description is vanilla: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
[US East] Facepunch 3 runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 436502457. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region tag is published, though the name of [US East] Facepunch 3 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 40.160.19.17:28015.
The average server fps was 251 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 218. Entity count reached 144,789: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 6,616 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
[US East] Facepunch 3 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.
[US East] Facepunch 3 is up and running at this moment. About 10 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 144 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 86% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 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 40.160.19.17:28015.
