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[US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1

Online 40.160.19.218:28020 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 5/ 300 slots 2% full +3+173%against this time yesterday
7-day average9peak 28
Rank#974top 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
0510152011:0020:0005:0014:0000:0009:00

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
12505007501k20 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

44
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

020406080+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 44, 31 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 44 – 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.

Tags

Who runs [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 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 Small 1?

You'll find [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 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 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; Boxes: Official only.

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

For the server browser, [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 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): Survival, standard Rust style; mp300 (Max players): Slots: 300; 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): It's on 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): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; 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.

Population

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

Player hours over the last week rank [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 at #974, within the top 4% of ranked servers.

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

The current tally at [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1: 5 players across 300 slots. Averaging 9 players across seven days, it topped out at 28. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 8 players.

About the server

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

Right now, [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 21 hours ago. 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 Small 1 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 224, and it never went below 209. At its peak it held 112,620 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 4,669 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 located?

Its name points to North America, although [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 publishes no region tag. 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 40.160.19.218:28020.

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

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

Wipe days

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 44 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 31 hours in.

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

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1, 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. Its current world has been live for 27 days 17 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

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

The procedural map on [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1 measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 1933426396. 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 Premium Small 1?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch Premium Small 1. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It sits in the Official tab in game. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Rust's premium status is required to join. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

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

Enter client.connect 40.160.19.218:28020 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. Rust's premium status is required to join.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,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.
mp300
Max players Slots: 300.
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 It's on 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 Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here.

Mods and access

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

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.