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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 9d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 63, 2 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:42 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 63 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 2 hours in.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Facepunch 8 takes. 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. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch 8 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [EU] Facepunch 8 are EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. Under the filters Region: Europe; 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.
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): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it: that is the tag list [EU] Facepunch 8 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.
[EU] Facepunch 8 is carrying 20 players at the moment, with 350 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 10 players; the peak was 24. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 21:00 UTC, averaging 16 players.
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch 8 at #943, in the top 4% of all ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch 8 carries no gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. 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: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
[EU] Facepunch 8 runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1376277816. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
No region tag is published, though the name of [EU] Facepunch 8 points to Europe. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. Connect to 79.137.98.10:28015.
The average server fps was 211 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 170. It supported up to 139,846 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 6,126 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch 8 runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now [EU] Facepunch 8 is online. About 4 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. 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 79.137.98.10:28015.
