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[US West] Facepunch 1

Online 148.113.198.9:28015 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 7/ 400 slots 2% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 17
Rank#1,161top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

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 8d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

20
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 16hThu 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 20, 46 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago 20 – running 7

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 1?

The same operator most likely runs [US West] Facepunch 1 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US West] Facepunch 1?

You'll find [US West] Facepunch 1 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 West] Facepunch 1 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US West] Facepunch 1: 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; mp400 (Max players): There are 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; 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): A monthly wipe, synced to 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): 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.

Population

How does [US West] Facepunch 1 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US West] Facepunch 1 at #1,161, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [US West] Facepunch 1 right now?

[US West] Facepunch 1 is holding 7 players, with 400 slots in total. Peak for the week was 17, against an average of 7 players. Look at 03:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 13 players on average.

About the server

Is [US West] Facepunch 1 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [US West] Facepunch 1 is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 12 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [US West] Facepunch 1 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 233 server fps, with a low of 212. Entities reached a maximum of 129,944: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,762 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US West] Facepunch 1 located?

No region tag comes from [US West] Facepunch 1, 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. You'll find it at 148.113.198.9:28015.

Which Rust version is [US West] Facepunch 1 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US West] Facepunch 1 runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [US West] Facepunch 1 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 20 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 46 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch 1?

Wipes on [US West] Facepunch 1 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. 26 days 8 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

Which map does [US West] Facepunch 1 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 166856579 is what [US West] Facepunch 1 runs, made by the game. 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 1?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US West] Facepunch 1. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

How to join

How do I join [US West] Facepunch 1?

Enter client.connect 148.113.198.9:28015 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 mp400,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.
mp400
Max players There are 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
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 A monthly wipe, synced to 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 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.