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[US East] Facepunch Large

Online 40.160.19.15:28015 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 6/ 400 slots 2% full −2−20%against this time yesterday
7-day average11peak 26
Rank#896top 4%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152008:0017:0002:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040008:0017:0002:0012:0021:0006:00

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
12505007501k20 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 8d 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

144
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 11hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 11hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

050100150200+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 144, 35 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW26d ago 144 – running 10

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 Large?

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

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

You'll find [US East] Facepunch Large 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. These filters bring it up 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US East] Facepunch Large: 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): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp400 (Max players): There are 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^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): 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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

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

A seven-day player-hours placing of #896 puts [US East] Facepunch Large in the top 4% of all ranked servers.

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

The current tally at [US East] Facepunch Large: 6 players across 400 slots. Averaging 11 players across seven days, it topped out at 26. Look at 04:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 15 players on average.

Server facts

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

Right now, [US East] Facepunch Large is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 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 Large run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 226, with 210 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 159,419: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,979 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Large located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch Large, 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 40.160.19.15:28015.

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

On Windows, [US East] Facepunch Large runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

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

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 144 players. 35 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [US East] Facepunch Large, tied to the force wipe. 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 26 days 13 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Large run?

A procedural map of 5,000 with seed 1929551490 is what [US East] Facepunch Large runs, made by the game. 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 Large?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US East] Facepunch Large. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Large?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 40.160.19.15:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

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 This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp400
Max players There are 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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 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.