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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 7h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 32, 2 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 32 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 2 hours in.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Facepunch Small 5 takes. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. This world dates from 27 days 17 hours. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
The playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch Small 5 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch Small 5 is listed under EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. Under the filters 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 it appears on the server list.
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): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp300 (Max players): Slots: 300; 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^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; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust: that is the tag list [EU] Facepunch Small 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.
[EU] Facepunch Small 5 is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 300 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 7 players; the peak was 16. Peak hour over 48 hours: 20:00 UTC, at 14 players on average.
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch Small 5 at #1,183, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [EU] Facepunch Small 5. The default applies: 8 players to a group. 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. By its own label it is vanilla: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 1021251229, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch Small 5. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Small 5 publishes no region tag. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 79.137.98.18:28015.
It never went below 220 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 230. Entity count reached 99,868: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 4,245 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on [EU] Facepunch Small 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 Small 5 is online. About 22 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.18:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
