Live 32,606 players 11,647 servers online 74 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published [US West] Facepunch 3 Onlineright now +1since yesterday
Celebrity profile

[US West] Facepunch 3

Online 148.113.198.10:28015 checked 9m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla
Get on the guest list

Vital stats

Players now 12/ 400 slots 3% full +1+8%against this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 18
Rank#1,142top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

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 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

21
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 26 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 21 – running 4

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.

You might also like

Similar servers

The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Who runs [US West] Facepunch 3?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US West] Facepunch 3 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US West] Facepunch 3?

You'll find [US West] Facepunch 3 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; 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 [US West] Facepunch 3 mean?

These are the tags [US West] Facepunch 3 publishes for the browser: 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, standard Rust style; mp400 (Max players): There are 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; 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): Once a month it wipes, following 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): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [US West] Facepunch 3 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US West] Facepunch 3 at #1,142, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [US West] Facepunch 3 right now?

[US West] Facepunch 3 is holding 12 players, with 400 slots in total. Averaging 7 players across seven days, it topped out at 18. Look at 03:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 12 players on average.

About the server

Is [US West] Facepunch 3 online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [US West] Facepunch 3 is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 15 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [US West] Facepunch 3 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 232, with 205 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 136,172 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 5,878 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US West] Facepunch 3 located?

No region tag comes from [US West] Facepunch 3, but its name points to North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 148.113.198.10:28015.

Which Rust version is [US West] Facepunch 3 on?

On Windows, [US West] Facepunch 3 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on [US West] Facepunch 3 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 21 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 26 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch 3?

Wipes on [US West] Facepunch 3 come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days 10 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does [US West] Facepunch 3 run?

Generated by the game with seed 822990378, the map on [US West] Facepunch 3 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 [US West] Facepunch 3?

The name of [US West] Facepunch 3 says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. The server's own word for it is vanilla: 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.

Join up

How do I join [US West] Facepunch 3?

Enter client.connect 148.113.198.10:28015 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 mp400,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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp400
Max players There are 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
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 Once a month it wipes, following 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 Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it.

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.