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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 4% of all ranked servers, and #50 of the quad servers (top 6%). 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 3h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 31 hours in.
The current map
Thursday 29 October 2026, 10:16 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 11:47 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 21 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 31 hours after it. In 100% of recent wipes, population held above half the peak right through to the next wipe.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small 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. This world dates from 5 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is listed under EU Rust servers, live, Official 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: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.
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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset: softcore; mp250 (Max players): Slots: 250; ts4 (Group limit): Each team holds 4 at most; v2636 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2636; 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): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^t (Tutorial on): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin created it: that is the tag list [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small publishes for the game's server browser. 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 Softcore Small is carrying 13 players at the moment, with 250 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 10 players; the peak was 25. Peak hour over 48 hours: 13:00 UTC, at 19 players on average.
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small at #955, in the top 4% of all ranked servers. The server sits at #50 among quad servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small. quad sets the cap: 4 players per group. softcore is the mode, with The easier Facepunch mode, where you keep some loot. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. You find it in the Official tab in game. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 3,750, seed 597885: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small publishes no region tag. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 79.137.98.21:28017.
It never went below 107 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 149. Entity count reached 117,000: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The highest memory usage was 3,865 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is up and running at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 3 hours ago. 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.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017.
