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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 2% of all ranked servers, and #21 of the quad servers (top 3%). 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 9d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 139, 47 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 139 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 47 hours after it.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 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 25 days 23 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 is listed under 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: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 50; Average players: 25+ on average; 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset: softcore; mp400 (Max players): The slot count is 400; ts4 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; sc2 (Custom tag): Not one of Rust's standard tags — a plugin or the owner added it, which [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 publishes. 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 Softcore 3 is carrying 66 players at the moment, with 400 slots in total. Averaged across seven days, 41 players; the peak was 112. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 18:00 UTC, averaging 108 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 is #398, placing it in the top 2% of ranked servers. Ranked against other quad servers, it comes in at #21.
No gather rate appears in the name [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3. The limit is 4 players to a group (quad). It runs softcore, An easier Facepunch mode: some loot stays yours. You can raid and fight other players. The in-game Official tab carries it. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1478860386, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
There is no region tag on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3; its name still points to Europe. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 79.137.98.22:28015.
It never went below 86 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 158. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 289,246 entities. Memory use peaked at 8,928 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 is online. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% 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 79.137.98.22:28015.
