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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 2% 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 19h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 162, 46 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 162 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 46 hours after it.
Once a month is all [EA] Facepunch 3 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. 26 days 5 hours have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Most likely one operator runs them: [EA] Facepunch 3 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [EA] Facepunch 3 are Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under 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; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [EA] Facepunch 3 makes public: 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): 350 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 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; ^v (Vanilla): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust. 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.
Live now: 5 players on [EA] Facepunch 3, out of 350 slots. Averaged across seven days, 31 players; the peak was 78. Peak hour over 48 hours: 13:00 UTC, at 60 players on average.
Player hours over seven days put [EA] Facepunch 3 at #489, in the top 2% of all ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [EA] Facepunch 3. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. 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.
Size 4,500, seed 1574747206: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EA] Facepunch 3. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
No region is published by [EA] Facepunch 3. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. Connect to 43.239.138.84:28015.
The average server fps was 141 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 11. It supported up to 175,902 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 128,424 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on [EA] Facepunch 3 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
[EA] Facepunch 3 is up and running at this moment. About 17 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. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 43.239.138.84:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
