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[US East] Facepunch Premium 3

Online 40.160.19.217:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 8/ 400 slots 2% full −1−11%against this time yesterday
7-day average13peak 26
Rank#823top 4%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
01020304011:0020:0005:0014:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040011:0020:0005:0014:0000:0009:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 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 8h. The force wipe · high confidence

286
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 8hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 286, 9 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW27d ago 286 – running 5

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 Premium 3?

The same operator most likely runs [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US East] Facepunch Premium 3?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US East] Facepunch Premium 3: 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; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t and Premium ^q; 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 Premium 3 mean?

These are the tags [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 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; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following 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; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; 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.

Player counts

How does [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #823 puts [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 in the top 4% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 right now?

8 players are on [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 26, against an average of 13 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 18 players.

Server facts

Is [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 is up and running. About 21 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 199 server fps, with a low of 139. At its peak it held 161,834 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 6,364 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch Premium 3, 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 40.160.19.217:28015.

Which Rust version is [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 286 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 9 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch Premium 3?

Wipes on [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 27 days 16 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 309724331 is what [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 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 [US East] Facepunch Premium 3?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US East] Facepunch Premium 3. 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. 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. Rust's premium status is required to join. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Premium 3?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 40.160.19.217:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. Rust's premium status is required to join.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,^q,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.
mp400
Max players It has 400 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 The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following 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.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Rust's premium status is required to join.

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.