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Camera-shy: no banner published [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 Onlineright now +5since yesterday
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[US East] Facepunch Premium 2

Online 40.160.19.218:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 7/ 400 slots 2% full +5+223%against this time yesterday
7-day average19peak 52
Rank#674top 3%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
01020304014:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040014:0023:0008:0017:0003:0012:00

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 3% 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 5h. The force wipe · high confidence

396
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 5hThu 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 396, 3 hours in, with 40 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW27d ago 396+40 queue – running 3

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.

Lists and tags

Who runs [US East] Facepunch Premium 2?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US East] Facepunch Premium 2?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US East] Facepunch Premium 2: 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 2 mean?

These are the tags [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 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): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; 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): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. 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 2 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 at #674, within the top 3% of ranked servers.

How many players are on [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 right now?

7 players are on [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Averaging 19 players across seven days, it topped out at 52. Look at 21:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 27 players on average.

About the server

Is [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 online, and how reliable is it?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 2 is live at the moment. About 36 minutes ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 198, with 151 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 188,166 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 7,090 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 located?

Its name points to North America, although [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 publishes no region tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 40.160.19.218:28015.

Which Rust version is [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 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 Premium 2 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 396 players at their busiest. With 40 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 3 hours after the wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch Premium 2?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [US East] Facepunch Premium 2, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 19 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 2071425264 is what [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [US East] Facepunch Premium 2?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch Premium 2. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Joining requires Rust's premium status. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Premium 2?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 40.160.19.218:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp400
Max players Slots: 400.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
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 No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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.