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[US West] Facepunch Premium 5

Online 148.113.198.76:28020 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 5/ 300 slots 2% full +2+43%against this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 24
Rank#1,160top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02.557.51003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

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 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

20
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 16hThu 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 20, 47 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 20 – running 2

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.

Lists and tags

Who runs [US West] Facepunch Premium 5?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 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 Premium 5?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US West] Facepunch Premium 5: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t and Premium ^q; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US West] Facepunch Premium 5: 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): There are 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 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): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to get in; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 at #1,160, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

How many players are on [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 right now?

The current tally at [US West] Facepunch Premium 5: 5 players across 300 slots. Peak for the week was 24, against an average of 7 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 13:00 UTC, averaging 8 players.

Server details

Is [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 13 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 228, and it never went below 159. At its peak it held 142,690 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 5,965 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 located?

No region tag comes from [US West] Facepunch Premium 5, but its name points to North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 148.113.198.76:28020.

Which Rust version is [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 20 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 47 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch Premium 5?

Wipes on [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 come once a month, alongside 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 9 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1520357899 is what [US West] Facepunch Premium 5 runs, made by the game. 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 Premium 5?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US West] Facepunch Premium 5. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. Vanilla is what it calls itself: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. You need Rust's premium status to get in. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join [US West] Facepunch Premium 5?

Enter client.connect 148.113.198.76:28020 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You need Rust's premium status to get in.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,^q,sc2,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 There are 300 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 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 No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^q
Premium You need Rust's premium status to get in.

Other

sc2
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.