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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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 2 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 38 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 2 hours after it.
Nothing wipes [EU] Facepunch 12 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 28 days 4 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch 12 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch 12 is listed under 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; 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 12 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): 300 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $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): Start with Facepunch's tutorial here if you are new; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
[EU] Facepunch 12 is carrying 5 players at the moment, with 300 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 6 players; the peak was 20. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 19:00 UTC, averaging 10 players.
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch 12 at #1,225, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch 12 carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. The in-game Official tab carries it. Vanilla is its own label: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 4,500, seed 88587119: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EU] Facepunch 12. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
There is no region tag on [EU] Facepunch 12; its name still points to Europe. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 79.137.98.17:28020 is its address.
The average server fps was 226 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 214. Entity count reached 127,794: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 5,894 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch 12 runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[EU] Facepunch 12 is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.17:28020 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
