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[EA] Softcore 1

Online 43.239.138.85:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 110/ 350 slots 31% full +29+36%against this time yesterday
7-day average68peak 180
Rank#268top 1%
Region–no continent published · group quad
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
05010015020012:0021:0006:0015:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020012:0021:0006:0015:0000:0009:00

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
110020030040020 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, and #14 of the quad servers (top 2%). 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 7h. The force wipe · high confidence

293
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 7hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 293, 44 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago 293 – running 59

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] Softcore 1?

The same operator most likely runs [EA] Softcore 1 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EA] Softcore 1?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EA] Softcore 1: Rust tutorial servers and Official Rust servers, watched. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 100; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EA] Softcore 1 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EA] Softcore 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp350 (Max players): There are 350 slots; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^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): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [EA] Softcore 1 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [EA] Softcore 1 at #268, within the top 1% of ranked servers. Within the quad category, it sits at #14.

How many players are on [EA] Softcore 1 right now?

The current tally at [EA] Softcore 1: 110 players across 350 slots. Averaging 68 players across seven days, it topped out at 180. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 12:00 UTC, averaging 156 players.

Server details

Is [EA] Softcore 1 online, and how reliable is it?

[EA] Softcore 1 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 hours ago. 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] Softcore 1 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 68, with 27 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 362,355 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 90,004 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [EA] Softcore 1 located?

No region is published by [EA] Softcore 1. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 43.239.138.85:28015.

Which Rust version is [EA] Softcore 1 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EA] Softcore 1 runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [EA] Softcore 1 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 293 players at their busiest. 44 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [EA] Softcore 1?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EA] Softcore 1, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 17 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does [EA] Softcore 1 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 683744944 is what [EA] Softcore 1 runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EA] Softcore 1?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EA] Softcore 1. quad is the group rule, capping teams at 4 players. softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join [EA] Softcore 1?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 43.239.138.85:28015. 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,^t,gmsoftcore,cs168909,sc2,ts4

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

gmsoftcore
Game mode An easier ruleset, softcore.
mp350
Max players There are 350 slots.
ts4
Group limit No team can exceed 4 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 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 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 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.