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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 21% 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 4h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 6, 8 hours in.
The current map
Thursday 29 October 2026, 10:14 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 8 October 2026, 07:24 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 11:42 UTC
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 6 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 8 hours after it. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 50% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 14.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small wipes, together with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 3 hours have passed since this world was generated. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small are EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now and Rust tutorial servers: live list. You will find it on the server list under Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Boxes: Official only.
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small 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; mp150 (Max players): The slot count is 150; ts0 (Group limit): There are no teams here; v2636 (Protocol): You need protocol 2636 on your game to get in; cs169627 (Build): This server runs game build 169627; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): Start with Facepunch's tutorial here if you are new; 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.
1 of [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small's 150 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 14:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small at #4,714, in the top 21% of all ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small carries no gather rate. It lists no limit on group size. It runs hardcore, The hardest mode Facepunch makes. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. 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 Staging Hardcore Small.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small publishes no region tag. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 79.137.98.20:28019 is its address.
The average server fps was 233 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 225. Entity count reached 83,000: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 3,229 MB of memory was used. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 1 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.20:28019.
