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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. 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 8d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 226, 26 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 226 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 26 hours after it.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch 6 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. The world you are playing on was built 26 days 4 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Most likely one operator runs them: [EU] Facepunch 6 and 124 other tracked servers publish a playrust.com hostname.
On Rust Live Stats, [EU] Facepunch 6 is listed under EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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; Players now: At least 10; 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; gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp350 (Max players): The slot count is 350; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; 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; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust, which [EU] Facepunch 6 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.
Live now: 44 players on [EU] Facepunch 6, out of 350 slots. Peak over the past week: 68. Average: 30 players. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 19:00 UTC, averaging 65 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch 6 sits at #497, inside the top 2% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [EU] Facepunch 6 states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. Its self-description is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 423680685, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch 6. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch 6 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 79.137.98.24:28015.
The average server fps was 208 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 160. Entity count reached 177,452: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 6,866 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 6 runs. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
At the time of this update, [EU] Facepunch 6 is live. About 8 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. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.24:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
