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[US] Facepunch Small 2

Online 148.113.198.8:28015 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 3/ 300 slots 1% full −3−52%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 21
Rank#1,078top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

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 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

19
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 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 19, 46 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 19 – running 6

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] Facepunch Small 2?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US] Facepunch Small 2 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US] Facepunch Small 2?

You'll find [US] Facepunch Small 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; 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] Facepunch Small 2 mean?

These are the tags [US] Facepunch Small 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): Survival, standard Rust style; mp300 (Max players): There are 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [US] Facepunch Small 2 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,078 puts [US] Facepunch Small 2 in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

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

The current tally at [US] Facepunch Small 2: 3 players across 300 slots. Averaging 8 players across seven days, it topped out at 21. Look at 15:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 16 players on average.

Server facts

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

Right now, [US] Facepunch Small 2 is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 15 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [US] Facepunch Small 2 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 283 server fps, with a low of 239. The world carried as many as 92,289 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,415 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US] Facepunch Small 2 located?

No region tag comes from [US] Facepunch Small 2, 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 148.113.198.8:28015.

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US] Facepunch Small 2 runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 19 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 46 hours in.

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

Wipes on [US] Facepunch Small 2 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. 27 days 11 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] Facepunch Small 2 run?

The procedural map on [US] Facepunch Small 2 measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 4025495. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Small 2?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US] Facepunch Small 2. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It sits in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is what it calls itself: 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] Facepunch Small 2?

Enter client.connect 148.113.198.8:28015 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 mp300,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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp300
Max players There are 300 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

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

Other

sc2
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags.

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.