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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 7% 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 23, 11 hours in.
The current map
Thursday 8 October 2026, 07:27 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 11:45 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 38 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 11 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the other cases it dropped under half by day 8.
Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Staging 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 34 days 20 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Staging and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists [EU] Facepunch Staging 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.
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging 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; mp350 (Max players): Slots: 350; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs169488 (Build): This server runs game build 169488; 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): 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. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
[EU] Facepunch Staging is carrying 6 players at the moment, with 350 slots in total. The seven-day average is 4 players, with a peak of 12. Peak hour over 48 hours: 19:00 UTC, at 9 players on average.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch Staging is #1,478, placing it in the top 7% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name [EU] Facepunch Staging. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. You find it in the Official tab in game. Its self-description is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 4,300 with seed 1641015675, generated by the game, runs on [EU] Facepunch Staging. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
The name points to Europe even though [EU] Facepunch Staging 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 79.137.98.9:28015.
Server fps averaged 192 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 180. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 114,000 entities. The highest memory usage was 4,138 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169488 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch Staging runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, [EU] Facepunch Staging is live. About 21 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
