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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 6% 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 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 25, 43 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 25 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 43 hours after it.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Small 4 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. The world you are playing on was built 28 days 10 hours. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Small 4 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch Small 4 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.
The server browser reads 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): The slot count is 300; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; 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): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^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, which [EU] Facepunch Small 4 publishes. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
[EU] Facepunch Small 4 is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 300 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 6 players; the peak was 20. Peak hour over 48 hours: 19:00 UTC, at 11 players on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch Small 4 sits at #1,287, inside the top 6% of ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch Small 4 carries no gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it in the Official tab in game. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 168365630, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch Small 4. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Small 4 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. 79.137.98.19:28020 is its address.
The average server fps was 227 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 196. Entity count reached 90,198: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 4,251 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch Small 4 runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[EU] Facepunch Small 4 is up and running at this moment. About 14 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.19:28020.
