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[US East] Facepunch Small 1

Online 40.160.19.14:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 10/ 300 slots 3% full −2−18%against this time yesterday
7-day average11peak 25
Rank#915top 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
0510152023:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

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

20
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

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

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 20, 47 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:39 UTC FW27d ago 20 – running 2

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 East] Facepunch Small 1?

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

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

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US East] Facepunch Small 1: 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [US East] Facepunch Small 1 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US East] Facepunch Small 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; mp300 (Max players): It has 300 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): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

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

A seven-day player-hours placing of #915 puts [US East] Facepunch Small 1 in the top 4% of all ranked servers.

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

The current tally at [US East] Facepunch Small 1: 10 players across 300 slots. Averaging 11 players across seven days, it topped out at 25. Look at 23:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 16 players on average.

Server details

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

[US East] Facepunch Small 1 is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 9 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [US East] Facepunch Small 1 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 234, and it never went below 221. The world carried as many as 103,373 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,657 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Small 1 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch Small 1, 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 40.160.19.14:28015.

Which Rust version is [US East] Facepunch Small 1 on?

On Windows, [US East] Facepunch Small 1 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 20 players. 47 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

Wipes on [US East] Facepunch Small 1 come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days 5 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Small 1 run?

The procedural map on [US East] Facepunch Small 1 measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 1217648204. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on [US East] Facepunch Small 1?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US East] Facepunch Small 1. The group limit is 8 players, the game's 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. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Small 1?

Enter client.connect 40.160.19.14:28015 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 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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp300
Max players It has 300 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 The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players.

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.