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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, and #22 of the quad servers (top 3%). 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 12h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 140, 47 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:44 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 140 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 47 hours after it.
Nothing wipes [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 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. The world you are playing on was built 27 days 13 hours. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Most likely one operator runs them: [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 fits: EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now and Rust tutorial servers: live list. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore ruleset: an easier game; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; ts4 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; 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; ^t (Tutorial on): Start with Facepunch's tutorial here if you are new; sc2 (Custom tag): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it, which [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 publishes. 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 Softcore 2 is carrying 13 players at the moment, with 400 slots in total. Peak over the past week: 126. Average: 40 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 19:00 UTC drew the most players, 89 on average.
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 at #423, in the top 2% of all ranked servers. The server sits at #22 among quad servers.
Nothing in the name of [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 states a gather rate. quad sets the cap: 4 players per group. softcore is the mode, with An easier Facepunch mode: some loot stays yours. You can raid and fight other players. The in-game Official tab carries it. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 872935069, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 publishes no region tag. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. 79.137.98.12:28015 is its address.
It never went below 122 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 167. Entity count reached 267,503: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 8,427 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The setup on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now [EU] Facepunch Softcore 2 is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 17 hours ago. 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.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.12:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
