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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 12% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
fixed weekdays
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 5h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 32 hours in.
The current map
Thursday 29 October 2026, 10:15 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 11:45 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 7 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 32 hours after it. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 26.
Wipes on [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small follow a every 5 weeks on Thursday at 10:15 UTC pattern. 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 2 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
Most likely one operator runs them: [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small is listed under EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Primitive Rust servers, live now and Rust tutorial servers: live list. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Primitive; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; 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; gmprimitive (Game mode): Bows, spears and melee replace guns in this primitive mode; mp250 (Max players): Slots: 250; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2636 (Protocol): You need protocol 2636 on your game to get in; cs169627 (Build): This server runs game build 169627; 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; ^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, which [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small publishes. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small is carrying 2 players at the moment, with 250 slots in total. The seven-day average is 1 players, with a peak of 8. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 12:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small sits at #2,653, inside the top 12% of ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. primitive is the mode, with no guns: bows, spears and melee. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,750, seed 1756228292. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive 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. Connect to 79.137.98.21:28015.
Server fps averaged 60 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 60. Entity count reached 82,000: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 3,212 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small is live. About 45 minutes 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. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 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 79.137.98.21:28015.
