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[EA] Facepunch 2

Online 103.194.164.43:28015 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 9/ 300 slots 3% full −19−68%against this time yesterday
7-day average25peak 51
Rank#599top 3%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02040608022:0007:0016:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040022:0007:0016:0000:0009:0019:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 3% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

298
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 298, 2 hours in, with 73 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 298+73 queue – running 44

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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Who runs [EA] Facepunch 2?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [EA] Facepunch 2 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EA] Facepunch 2?

You'll find [EA] Facepunch 2 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EA] Facepunch 2 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EA] Facepunch 2: 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): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp300 (Max players): Slots: 300; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; sc3 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does [EA] Facepunch 2 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [EA] Facepunch 2 at #599, within the top 3% of ranked servers.

How many players are on [EA] Facepunch 2 right now?

[EA] Facepunch 2 is holding 9 players, with 300 slots in total. Peak for the week was 51, against an average of 25 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 11:00 UTC, averaging 45 players.

Server details

Is [EA] Facepunch 2 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [EA] Facepunch 2 is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 11 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [EA] Facepunch 2 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 153 server fps, with a low of 112. Entities reached a maximum of 180,022: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 7,104 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [EA] Facepunch 2 located?

There is no region from [EA] Facepunch 2. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 103.194.164.43:28015.

Which Rust version is [EA] Facepunch 2 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EA] Facepunch 2 runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on [EA] Facepunch 2 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 298 players. With 73 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 2 hours after the wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on [EA] Facepunch 2?

[EA] Facepunch 2 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 27 days 3 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does [EA] Facepunch 2 run?

Generated by the game with seed 334048073, the map on [EA] Facepunch 2 is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on [EA] Facepunch 2?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EA] Facepunch 2. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join [EA] Facepunch 2?

Enter client.connect 103.194.164.43:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc3,ts8

On Rust Pop Watch

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.

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp300
Max players Slots: 300.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players.

Other

sc3
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.