[EU] Facepunch Tech Test
Online 162.19.127.25:28015 checked 8m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 8 Oct, 04:25 UTC20d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 04:27 UTC33d ago | 0 | – | 13 days | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 11:59 UTC42d ago | 2 | halved by day 6 | 8.7 days | 0 |
| Tue 15 Sep, 15:48 UTC43d ago | 2 | – | 0.8 days | 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Tech Test?
[EU] Facepunch Tech Test 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 [EU] Facepunch Tech Test?
You'll find [EU] Facepunch Tech Test on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; 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 [EU] Facepunch Tech Test mean?
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Tech Test 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; mp0 (Max players): It has 0 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; cs169462 (Build): Game build: 169462; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^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): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does [EU] Facepunch Tech Test rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last week rank [EU] Facepunch Tech Test at #15,358, within the top 69% of ranked servers.
How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Tech Test right now?
The count at [EU] Facepunch Tech Test right now: 0 players. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
About the server
Is [EU] Facepunch Tech Test online, and how reliable is it?
[EU] Facepunch Tech Test is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 21 hours ago. 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 [EU] Facepunch Tech Test run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 240 server fps, with a low of 240. The world carried as many as 120,000 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,438 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Tech Test located?
No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Tech Test, but its name points to Europe. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 162.19.127.25:28015.
Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Tech Test on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169462 is the version [EU] Facepunch Tech Test runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on [EU] Facepunch Tech Test when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 6.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Tech Test?
[EU] Facepunch Tech Test wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. 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 33 days 22 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Rules and settings
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Tech Test run?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 211649 is what [EU] Facepunch Tech Test 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 [EU] Facepunch Tech Test?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EU] Facepunch Tech Test. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. Vanilla is what it calls itself: 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.
Join up
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Tech Test?
Enter client.connect 162.19.127.25:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.