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Facepunch Staging Creators

Online 198.244.177.77:28023 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ ? slots steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 3
Rank#5,991top 27%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe21h agono schedule published
Next wipe6d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
0123408:0017:0003:0011:0020:0005:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 10:11 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
010020030040008:0017:0003:0011:0020:0005:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 10:11 UTCWIPE

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 27% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

35 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

6d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 11hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 28 hours in, with 1 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 10:11 UTC21h ago – – running 0
Thu 24 Sep, 10:55 UTC35d ago 2+1 queue held half 35 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Who runs Facepunch Staging Creators?

A playrust.com hostname is published by Facepunch Staging Creators and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Facepunch Staging Creators?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Facepunch Staging Creators: Official Rust servers, watched. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on Facepunch Staging Creators mean?

These are the tags Facepunch Staging Creators 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): There are 0 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2636 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2636; cs169627 (Build): Game build: 169627; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does Facepunch Staging Creators rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #5,991 puts Facepunch Staging Creators in the top 27% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Facepunch Staging Creators right now?

Facepunch Staging Creators has 0 players as things stand. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 3. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 20:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Server facts

Is Facepunch Staging Creators online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Facepunch Staging Creators is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Facepunch Staging Creators run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 165 server fps, with a low of 56. The world carried as many as 120,000 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 3,673 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Facepunch Staging Creators located?

No region is published by Facepunch Staging Creators. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 198.244.177.77:28023.

Which Rust version is Facepunch Staging Creators on?

On Windows, Facepunch Staging Creators runs Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on Facepunch Staging Creators when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. 28 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and 1 more were queued. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on Facepunch Staging Creators?

Facepunch Staging Creators keeps to a every 5 weeks on Thursday at 10:11 UTC wipe rhythm. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 21 hours.

The rules

Which map does Facepunch Staging Creators run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 8432123 is what Facepunch Staging Creators 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 Facepunch Staging Creators?

The name of Facepunch Staging Creators says nothing about gather rate. 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. It sits in the Official tab in game. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join Facepunch Staging Creators?

Enter client.connect 198.244.177.77:28023 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 mp0,ptrak,$r?,v2636,gmrust,cs169627,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.
mp0
Max players There are 0 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2636
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2636.
cs169627
Build Game build: 169627.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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.