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Camera-shy: no banner published [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 Onlineright now +1since yesterday
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[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1

Online 40.160.19.53:28015 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 18/ 400 slots 4% full +1+6%against this time yesterday
7-day average21peak 45
Rank#646top 3%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02040608019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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
120040060080020 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 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 9d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

76
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
37d 0hThu 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 76, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:39 UTC FW26d ago 76 – running 14

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 Primitive 1?

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

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched, Primitive Rust servers, watched live and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Primitive; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

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

For the server browser, [US East] Facepunch Primitive 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; gmprimitive (Game mode): Bows, spears and melee only, with no guns: primitive; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 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; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; 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.

The players

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

Player hours over the last week rank [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 at #646, within the top 3% of ranked servers.

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

18 players are on [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 45, against an average of 21 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 20:00 UTC, averaging 41 players.

About the server

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

[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 215, and it never went below 182. Entities reached a maximum of 157,617: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 6,621 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 located?

Its name points to North America, although [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 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 40.160.19.53:28015.

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

On Windows, [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 76 players at their busiest. 5 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

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

Generated by the game with seed 135398213, the map on [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 is procedural and 4,250 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 Primitive 1?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs primitive, melee, spears and bows instead of guns. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

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

Enter client.connect 40.160.19.53:28015 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,gmprimitive,cs168909,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

gmprimitive
Game mode Bows, spears and melee only, with no guns: primitive.
mp400
Max players Slots: 400.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 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.

Gameplay

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

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.