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[EU] Facepunch 16

Online 109.200.194.197:28015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 15/ 300 slots 5% full +3+22%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 22
Rank#1,095top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
01020304012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 5% 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 7h. The force wipe · high confidence

299
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 7hThu 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 299, 47 hours in, with 234 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW27d ago 299+234 queue – running 103

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.

Server tags

Who runs [EU] Facepunch 16?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch 16 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch 16?

You'll find [EU] Facepunch 16 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: 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; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch 16 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU] Facepunch 16: 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): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp300 (Max players): Slots: 300; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; sc3 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [EU] Facepunch 16 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch 16 at #1,095, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU] Facepunch 16 right now?

[EU] Facepunch 16 is holding 15 players, with 300 slots in total. Peak for the week was 22, against an average of 8 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 20 players.

Server details

Is [EU] Facepunch 16 online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Facepunch 16 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch 16 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 121 server fps, with a low of 100. Entities reached a maximum of 135,065: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,704 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [EU] Facepunch 16 located?

Its name points to Europe, although [EU] Facepunch 16 publishes no region tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 109.200.194.197:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch 16 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EU] Facepunch 16 runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on [EU] Facepunch 16 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 299 players at their busiest. 47 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and 234 more were queued.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch 16?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU] Facepunch 16, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 27 days 17 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does [EU] Facepunch 16 run?

Generated by the game with seed 253948282, the map on [EU] Facepunch 16 is procedural and 4,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch 16?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EU] Facepunch 16. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Facepunch 16?

Enter client.connect 109.200.194.197:28015 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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp300
Max players Slots: 300.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

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

Other

sc3
Custom tag The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust.

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.