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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 7% 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 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 22, 4 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:39 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 22 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 4 hours in.
Once a month is all [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 wipes, together with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are playing on was built 26 days 9 hours. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is listed under Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and North America Rust servers, live. Under the filters Region: North America; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Wipe schedule: Monthly; 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; gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore ruleset: a harsher game; mp400 (Max players): 400 slots are available; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is disabled; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^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, which [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 publishes. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is carrying 1 players at the moment, with 400 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 4 players; the peak was 12. Peak hour over 48 hours: 14:00 UTC, at 6 players on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is #1,468, placing it in the top 7% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1. Group limits are not published. It runs hardcore, Hardest of Facepunch's modes. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. You find it in the Official tab in game. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 runs a game-generated procedural map of size 3,750.
No region tag is published, though the name of [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 points to North America. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 40.160.19.52:28015 is its address.
Server fps averaged 233 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 225. It supported up to 92,727 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 4,084 MB of memory was used. 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 Hardcore 1 runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 40.160.19.52:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
