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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 3% 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 6d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 71, 47 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:41 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 71 players at their busiest. 47 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Facepunch 9 takes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. This world dates from 28 days 4 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch 9 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch 9 is listed under 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.
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch 9 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp350 (Max players): Slots: 350; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 23 players on [EU] Facepunch 9, out of 350 slots. Peak over the past week: 43. Average: 18 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 20:00 UTC, averaging 27 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch 9 is #702, placing it in the top 3% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [EU] Facepunch 9 states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 4,500, seed 1928463649: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EU] Facepunch 9. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch 9 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. Connect to 79.137.98.10:28020.
Server fps averaged 196 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 95. It supported up to 162,019 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 6,930 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on [EU] Facepunch 9 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
At the time of this update, [EU] Facepunch 9 is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.10:28020 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
