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[US West] Facepunch Premium 4

Online 148.113.198.87:28020 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 7/ 300 slots 2% full −6−48%against this time yesterday
7-day average10peak 20
Rank#970top 4%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 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 7d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

26
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 12hThu 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 26, 9 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 26 – running 3

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.

Tags

Who runs [US West] Facepunch Premium 4?

[US West] Facepunch Premium 4 and 124 other servers we track publish a playrust.com hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US West] Facepunch Premium 4?

You'll find [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 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; 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 4 mean?

For the server browser, [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 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; mp300 (Max players): There are 300 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): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $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): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; ^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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 at #970, in the top 4% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 right now?

7 players are on [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 at the moment, out of 300 slots. Peak for the week was 20, against an average of 10 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 21:00 UTC, averaging 15 players.

Server details

Is [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 is online. About 17 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 206, and it never went below 182. The world carried as many as 150,748 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 5,843 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 located?

No region tag comes from [US West] Facepunch Premium 4, 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. Connect at 148.113.198.87:28020.

Which Rust version is [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 on?

On Windows, [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 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 Premium 4 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 26 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 9 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch Premium 4?

Wipes on [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 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. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 12 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 run?

Generated by the game with seed 531619313, the map on [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 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 4?

The name of [US West] Facepunch Premium 4 says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, 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. 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. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [US West] Facepunch Premium 4?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 148.113.198.87:28020. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. 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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp300
Max players There are 300 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 It's on 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 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 Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here.

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.