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[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1

Online 40.160.19.52:28015 checked 11m ago

official teams off monthly wipes hardcore
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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 400 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average4peak 12
Rank#1,482top 7%
Region–no continent published · group teams off
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246815:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040015:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

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 7% 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 8d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

22
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 4hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 22, 4 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:39 UTC FW26d ago 22 – 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 Hardcore 1?

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

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 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; gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled on this server; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

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

A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,482 puts [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 in the top 7% of all ranked servers.

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

2 players are on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 12, against an average of 4 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 05:00 UTC, averaging 6 players.

About the server

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

[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 1 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 233, and it never went below 225. At its peak it held 92,727 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 4,211 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 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. Connect at 40.160.19.52:28015.

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 22 players. 4 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

Wipes on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 come once a month, alongside 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 26 days 21 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 run?

A procedural map of 3,750 is what [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 runs, generated by the game.

What are the rules and settings on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1. Nothing on group size is published here. Facepunch's most punishing mode: that is the hardcore mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1?

Enter client.connect 40.160.19.52:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^t,gmhardcore,cs168909,sc2,ts0

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

gmhardcore
Game mode A harsher ruleset, hardcore.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts0
Group limit Teams are disabled on this server.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

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

Other

sc2
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.