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[US East] Facepunch 1

Online 40.160.19.2:28015 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 7/ 400 slots 2% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average9peak 26
Rank#1,024top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152023:0008:0017:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510023:0008:0017:0001:0010:0020:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 5% 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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence

201
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 20hThu 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 201, 9 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 201 – running 16

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 1?

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

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

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US East] Facepunch 1: 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): There are 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): 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): 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; sc3 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

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

The last seven days of player hours place [US East] Facepunch 1 at #1,024, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

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

7 players are on [US East] Facepunch 1 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 26, against an average of 9 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 00:00 UTC, averaging 13 players.

Server facts

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

As of now, [US East] Facepunch 1 is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [US East] Facepunch 1 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 100 server fps, with a low of 96. The world carried as many as 146,653 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 5,806 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [US East] Facepunch 1 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch 1, 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. You'll find it at 40.160.19.2:28015.

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

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

Wipe days

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 201 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 9 hours in.

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

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [US East] Facepunch 1, 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. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 4 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Map and rules

Which map does [US East] Facepunch 1 run?

Generated by the game with seed 92053423, the map on [US East] Facepunch 1 is procedural and 4,500 in size. 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 1?

The name of [US East] Facepunch 1 says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join [US East] Facepunch 1?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 40.160.19.2:28015. 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,sc3,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 There are 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build 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 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

sc3
Custom tag The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust.

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.