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[US West] Facepunch 2

Online 148.113.198.7:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 5/ 400 slots 1% full −5−50%against this time yesterday
7-day average9peak 23
Rank#991top 4%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 4% 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 8d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

29
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 3hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 29, 35 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago 29 – 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Who runs [US West] Facepunch 2?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US West] Facepunch 2 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 2?

You'll find [US West] Facepunch 2 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. These filters bring it up 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; Boxes: Official only.

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

For the server browser, [US West] Facepunch 2 lists these tags: 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; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside 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; 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 2 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #991 puts [US West] Facepunch 2 in the top 4% of all ranked servers.

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

[US West] Facepunch 2 is holding 5 players, with 400 slots in total. Averaging 9 players across seven days, it topped out at 23. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 23:00 UTC, averaging 14 players.

Server details

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

[US West] Facepunch 2 is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 2 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [US West] Facepunch 2 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 232 server fps, with a low of 222. Entities reached a maximum of 144,633: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 6,386 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US West] Facepunch 2 located?

Its name points to North America, although [US West] Facepunch 2 publishes no region tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 148.113.198.7:28015.

Which Rust version is [US West] Facepunch 2 on?

On Windows, [US West] Facepunch 2 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 29 players at their busiest. 35 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch 2?

Wipes on [US West] Facepunch 2 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. 26 days 22 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does [US West] Facepunch 2 run?

Generated by the game with seed 1946478515, the map on [US West] Facepunch 2 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 2?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US West] Facepunch 2. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join [US West] Facepunch 2?

Enter client.connect 148.113.198.7:28015 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,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.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside 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

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.