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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 10h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 20, 25 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:43 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 20 players at their busiest. 25 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Small 2 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. 27 days 14 hours have passed since this world was generated. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Small 2 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include [EU] Facepunch Small 2 are EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under 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.
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Small 2 makes public: 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): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp300 (Max players): The slot count is 300; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $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): 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. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
[EU] Facepunch Small 2 is carrying 4 players at the moment, with 300 slots in total. The seven-day average is 8 players, with a peak of 21. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 21:00 UTC, averaging 15 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, [EU] Facepunch Small 2 sits at #1,132, inside the top 5% of ranked servers.
The name [EU] Facepunch Small 2 carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. The in-game Official tab carries it. 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 3,750, seed 176866603: that is the procedural map the game generates for [EU] Facepunch Small 2. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
There is no region tag on [EU] Facepunch Small 2; its name still points to Europe. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 79.137.98.8:28020.
It never went below 168 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 226. It supported up to 96,669 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 4,982 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
[EU] Facepunch Small 2 operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[EU] Facepunch Small 2 is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.8:28020 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
