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Camera-shy: no banner published [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 Onlineright now +3since yesterday
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[US West] Facepunch Premium 2

Online 148.113.198.86:28015 checked 3h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 11/ 400 slots 3% full +3+35%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 22
Rank#1,056top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152021:0006:0015:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040021:0006:0015:0023:0008:0017:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 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 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

25
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 22hThu 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 25, 26 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 25 – running 1

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 2?

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

You'll find [US West] Facepunch Premium 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. It appears under these filters 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; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.

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

These are the tags [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 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): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 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): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; sc2 (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 Premium 2 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,056 puts [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

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

The current tally at [US West] Facepunch Premium 2: 11 players across 400 slots. Averaging 8 players across seven days, it topped out at 22. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 00:00 UTC, averaging 15 players.

About the server

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

[US West] Facepunch Premium 2 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 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 [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 199, with 142 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 154,849: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,835 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 located?

Its name points to North America, although [US West] Facepunch Premium 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 148.113.198.86:28015.

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

On Windows, [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 25 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 26 hours after it began.

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

[US West] Facepunch Premium 2 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 27 days 2 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 run?

Generated by the game with seed 834980326, the map on [US West] Facepunch Premium 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 Premium 2?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US West] Facepunch Premium 2. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. It sits in the Official tab in game. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Rust's premium status is required to join. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join [US West] Facepunch Premium 2?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 148.113.198.86:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. Rust's premium status is required to join.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp400
Max players Slots: 400.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 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 No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Rust's premium status is required to join.

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.