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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 7d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 45, 47 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:40 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 45 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 47 hours in.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 wipes, together with the force wipe. 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 27 days 23 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 are EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t and Premium ^q; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 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; mp300 (Max players): Slots: 300; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; 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): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships; ^t (Tutorial on): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to join this server; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created 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: 10 players on [EU] Facepunch Premium 5, out of 300 slots. The seven-day average is 9 players, with a peak of 26. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 19:00 UTC, averaging 14 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 is #969, placing it in the top 4% of ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 carries no gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The in-game Official tab carries it. By its own label it is vanilla: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. You need Rust's premium status to join this server. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 860265253, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch Premium 5. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
No region tag is published, though the name of [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 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 79.137.98.154:28020.
Server fps averaged 229 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 217. Entity count reached 161,168: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 5,916 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
[EU] Facepunch Premium 5 operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, [EU] Facepunch Premium 5 is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 3 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 79.137.98.154:28020 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You need Rust's premium status to join this server.
