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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 5% 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 17h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 191, 26 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:43 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 191 players. 26 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Nothing wipes [EU] Facepunch 5 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. 28 days 7 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 5 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [EU] Facepunch 5 fits: 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.
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): 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): The game build is 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): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; sc2 (Custom tag): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it: that is the tag list [EU] Facepunch 5 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.
Live now: 5 players on [EU] Facepunch 5, out of 350 slots. Averaged across seven days, 7 players; the peak was 24. Peak hour over 48 hours: 17:00 UTC, at 12 players on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch 5 sits at #1,169, inside the top 5% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [EU] Facepunch 5. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. Its self-description is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 807405672, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch 5. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch 5 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. 79.137.98.14:28020 is its address.
It never went below 191 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 221. It supported up to 130,687 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 6,229 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on [EU] Facepunch 5 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now [EU] Facepunch 5 is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 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.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.14:28020.
