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[US East] Facepunch Premium 5

Online 40.160.19.241:28020 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 8/ 300 slots 3% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average12peak 24
Rank#879top 4%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
01020304015:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

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 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 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

59
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 4hThu 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 59, 33 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 59 – 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 5?

The same operator most likely runs [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 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 5?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US East] Facepunch Premium 5: 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; 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 5 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US East] Facepunch Premium 5: 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; mp300 (Max players): There are 300 slots; 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): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to get in; 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 Premium 5 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 at #879, in the top 4% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 right now?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 5 is holding 8 players, with 300 slots in total. Peak for the week was 24, against an average of 12 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 16:00 UTC, averaging 19 players.

Server details

Is [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 40 minutes ago. 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 5 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 226, with 194 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 146,486 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 6,117 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch Premium 5, 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 40.160.19.241:28020.

Which Rust version is [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 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 5 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 59 players at their busiest. 33 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch Premium 5?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 5 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days 20 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 run?

Generated by the game with seed 950818590, the map on [US East] Facepunch Premium 5 is procedural and 4,500 in size. 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 5?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US East] Facepunch Premium 5. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. You need Rust's premium status to get in. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Premium 5?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 40.160.19.241:28020. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You need Rust's premium status to get in.

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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp300
Max players There are 300 slots.
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 The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^q
Premium You need Rust's premium status to get in.

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.