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[EA] Facepunch 3

Online 43.239.138.84:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 3/ 350 slots 1% full −12−79%against this time yesterday
7-day average31peak 78
Rank#487top 2%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02040608022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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
12505007501k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 2% 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 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

162
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 21hThu 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 162, 46 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:39 UTC FW26d ago 162 – running 9

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 [EA] Facepunch 3?

[EA] Facepunch 3 and 124 other servers we track publish a playrust.com hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EA] Facepunch 3?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EA] Facepunch 3: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: 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; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EA] Facepunch 3 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EA] Facepunch 3: 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): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp350 (Max players): There are 350 slots; 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): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to 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; 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 [EA] Facepunch 3 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #487 puts [EA] Facepunch 3 in the top 2% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [EA] Facepunch 3 right now?

3 players are on [EA] Facepunch 3 at the moment, out of 350 slots. Averaging 31 players across seven days, it topped out at 78. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 13:00 UTC, averaging 60 players.

Server facts

Is [EA] Facepunch 3 online, and how reliable is it?

[EA] Facepunch 3 is live at the moment. About 15 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [EA] Facepunch 3 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 143, with 11 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 176,009 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 115,146 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [EA] Facepunch 3 located?

No region is published by [EA] Facepunch 3. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 43.239.138.84:28015.

Which Rust version is [EA] Facepunch 3 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EA] Facepunch 3 runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [EA] Facepunch 3 when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 162 players. 46 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [EA] Facepunch 3?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EA] Facepunch 3, 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. 26 days 4 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

Which map does [EA] Facepunch 3 run?

The procedural map on [EA] Facepunch 3 measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1574747206. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on [EA] Facepunch 3?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EA] Facepunch 3. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It sits in the Official tab in game. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join [EA] Facepunch 3?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 43.239.138.84:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,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

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp350
Max players There are 350 slots.
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 It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to 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.

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.