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

Online 148.113.198.87:28015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 8/ 400 slots 2% full +2+45%against this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 15
Rank#1,180top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152005:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040005:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

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 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 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 6d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

24
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 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 24, 47 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW28d ago 24 – running 0

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 [US West] Facepunch Premium 3?

The same operator most likely runs [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

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

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [US West] Facepunch Premium 3: 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; 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 3 mean?

For the server browser, [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 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): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp400 (Max players): There are 400 slots; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^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): Joining requires Rust's premium status; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

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

Player hours over the last week rank [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 at #1,180, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

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

8 players are on [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 15, against an average of 7 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 23:00 UTC, averaging 10 players.

About the server

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

[US West] Facepunch Premium 3 is live at the moment. About 14 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 209, with 183 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 137,657 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 5,667 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 located?

No region tag comes from [US West] Facepunch Premium 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. Connect at 148.113.198.87:28015.

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

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

Wipe times

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

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 24 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 47 hours after it began.

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

Wipes on [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 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 28 days 10 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 run?

Generated by the game with seed 1438140888, the map on [US West] Facepunch Premium 3 is procedural and 4,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on [US West] Facepunch Premium 3?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US West] Facepunch Premium 3. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. It sits in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is what it calls itself: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Joining requires Rust's premium status. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join [US West] Facepunch Premium 3?

Enter client.connect 148.113.198.87:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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 There are 400 slots.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

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 Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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.