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Camera-shy: no banner published [US] Facepunch Small 3 Onlineright now +5since yesterday
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[US] Facepunch Small 3

Online 148.113.198.8:28020 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 8/ 300 slots 3% full +5+167%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 19
Rank#1,095top 5%
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

010020030040007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

23
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

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 23, 47 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 23 – 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.

Tags

Who runs [US] Facepunch Small 3?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US] Facepunch Small 3 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 3?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US] Facepunch Small 3: 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 3 mean?

These are the tags [US] Facepunch Small 3 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; mp300 (Max players): There are 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; 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.

The players

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

A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,095 puts [US] Facepunch Small 3 in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

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

8 players are on [US] Facepunch Small 3 at the moment, out of 300 slots. Peak for the week was 19, against an average of 8 players. Look at 21:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 13 players on average.

Server details

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

Right now, [US] Facepunch Small 3 is up and running. About 17 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [US] Facepunch Small 3 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 276, and it never went below 223. The world carried as many as 96,451 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 5,519 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US] Facepunch Small 3 located?

No region tag comes from [US] Facepunch Small 3, 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 148.113.198.8:28020.

Which Rust version is [US] Facepunch Small 3 on?

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

Wipe times

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 23 players. 47 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

Wipes on [US] Facepunch Small 3 come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 13 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does [US] Facepunch Small 3 run?

A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 719534390 is what [US] Facepunch Small 3 runs, made by the game. 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 3?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US] Facepunch Small 3. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It sits in the Official tab in game. The server's own word for it is vanilla: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join [US] Facepunch Small 3?

Enter client.connect 148.113.198.8:28020 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 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 The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

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

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.