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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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 201, 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 201 players. 9 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [US East] Facepunch 1 takes. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 26 days 5 hours have passed since this world was generated. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Most likely one operator runs them: [US East] Facepunch 1 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [US East] Facepunch 1 fits: 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.
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): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp400 (Max players): The slot count is 400; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; 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): 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): Start with Facepunch's tutorial here if you are new; sc3 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust, which [US East] Facepunch 1 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: 12 players on [US East] Facepunch 1, out of 400 slots. Peak over the past week: 38. Average: 10 players. Peak hour over 48 hours: 00:00 UTC, at 15 players on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [US East] Facepunch 1 is #933, placing it in the top 4% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [US East] Facepunch 1. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. The in-game Official tab carries it. Vanilla is its own label: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 4,500, seed 92053423: that is the procedural map the game generates for [US East] Facepunch 1. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
The name points to North America even though [US East] Facepunch 1 publishes no region tag. 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 40.160.19.2:28015.
The average server fps was 100 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 90. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 153,463 entities. Up to 6,088 MB of memory was used. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US East] Facepunch 1 runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, [US East] Facepunch 1 is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 9 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 40.160.19.2:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
