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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 5% 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 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 389, 27 hours in, with 44 in the queue.
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 389 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 27 hours in, and 44 more were queued.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Facepunch 2 takes. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 27 days 6 hours have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
The playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch 2 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [EU] Facepunch 2 fits: 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; 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; mp400 (Max players): The slot count is 400; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; 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; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Start with Facepunch's tutorial here if you are new; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust, which [EU] Facepunch 2 publishes. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 9 players on [EU] Facepunch 2, out of 400 slots. The seven-day average is 9 players, with a peak of 27. Peak hour over 48 hours: 20:00 UTC, at 11 players on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch 2 is #1,036, placing it in the top 5% of ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch 2 carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, 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: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 4,500, seed 61531860: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EU] Facepunch 2. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch 2 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 79.137.98.7:28015.
The average server fps was 242 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 225. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 140,042 entities. Up to 6,126 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on [EU] Facepunch 2 is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[EU] Facepunch 2 is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 hours ago. 144 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 86% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.7:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
