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[US East] Facepunch 5

Online 40.160.19.12:28015 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 11/ 350 slots 3% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average11peak 22
Rank#903top 4%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
01020304023:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 4% 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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

28
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 20hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 28, 11 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 28 – 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 East] Facepunch 5?

The same operator most likely runs [US East] Facepunch 5 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US East] Facepunch 5?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [US East] Facepunch 5: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [US East] Facepunch 5 mean?

For the server browser, [US East] Facepunch 5 lists these tags: 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; mp350 (Max players): It has 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to 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.

Population

How does [US East] Facepunch 5 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US East] Facepunch 5 at #903, in the top 4% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [US East] Facepunch 5 right now?

The current tally at [US East] Facepunch 5: 11 players across 350 slots. Peak for the week was 22, against an average of 11 players. Look at 03:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 20 players on average.

Server details

Is [US East] Facepunch 5 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [US East] Facepunch 5 is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 9 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 East] Facepunch 5 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 229, and it never went below 209. The world carried as many as 140,440 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 6,010 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US East] Facepunch 5 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch 5, 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. Connect at 40.160.19.12:28015.

Which Rust version is [US East] Facepunch 5 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US East] Facepunch 5 runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [US East] Facepunch 5 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 28 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 11 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch 5?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [US East] Facepunch 5, tied to 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 5 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does [US East] Facepunch 5 run?

Generated by the game with seed 1351983540, the map on [US East] Facepunch 5 is procedural and 4,500 in size. 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 East] Facepunch 5?

The name of [US East] Facepunch 5 says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join [US East] Facepunch 5?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 40.160.19.12:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp350,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.
mp350
Max players It has 350 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build 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 A monthly wipe, synced to 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.