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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 7d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 31, 4 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 31 players. 4 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 wipes, together with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 6 hours have passed since this world was generated. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Most likely one operator runs them: [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 are EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now and Rust tutorial servers: live list. Under the filters Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only it appears on the server list.
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 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; gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore, the harsher ruleset, applies here; mp400 (Max players): The slot count is 400; ts0 (Group limit): This server switches teams off; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): 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): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^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. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
1 of [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1's 400 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 7 players, with a peak of 21. Between now and 48 hours back, 19:00 UTC drew the most players, 15 on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 sits at #1,223, inside the top 5% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 states a gather rate. Group limits are not published. It runs hardcore, Hardest of Facepunch's modes. You can raid and fight other players. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 3,750, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1.
There is no region tag on [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1; its name still points to Europe. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 79.137.98.161:28015 is its address.
It never went below 199 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 227. It supported up to 100,149 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 4,318 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on [EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
[EU] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is up and running at this moment. About 11 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 144 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 86% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.161:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
