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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 6% 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 7d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 27, 1 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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 27 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Nothing wipes [EU] Facepunch 3 but the force wipe, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days 22 hours have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Most likely one operator runs them: [EU] Facepunch 3 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [EU] Facepunch 3 are EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [EU] 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; mp400 (Max players): 400 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^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; sc3 (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it. 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.
4 of [EU] Facepunch 3's 400 slots are filled right now. Averaged across seven days, 6 players; the peak was 19. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 19:00 UTC, averaging 13 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch 3 sits at #1,301, inside the top 6% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [EU] Facepunch 3. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. The in-game Official tab carries it. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 4,500, seed 1909391378: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EU] Facepunch 3. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
No region tag is published, though the name of [EU] Facepunch 3 points to Europe. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 79.137.98.11:28015 is its address.
Server fps averaged 232 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 222. Entity count reached 129,460: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 5,551 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
[EU] Facepunch 3 operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[EU] Facepunch 3 is up and running at this moment. About 2 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% 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 79.137.98.11:28015.
