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[AU] Facepunch Premium 1

Online 51.161.199.59:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 5/ 250 slots 2% full +1+25%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 18
Rank#1,083top 5%
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
0510152022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0019:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 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 8d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

87
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

0255075100+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 87, 16 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW26d ago 87 – 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.

Tags

Who runs [AU] Facepunch Premium 1?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [AU] Facepunch Premium 1?

You'll find [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, Oceania Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t and Premium ^q; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 mean?

For the server browser, [AU] Facepunch Premium 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; gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp250 (Max players): Slots: 250; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags. 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 [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,083 puts [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 right now?

The current tally at [AU] Facepunch Premium 1: 5 players across 250 slots. Peak for the week was 18, against an average of 8 players. Look at 09:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 13 players on average.

Server details

Is [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 170, and it never went below 96. Entities reached a maximum of 134,439: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,676 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 located?

Its name points to Oceania, although [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 publishes no region tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 51.161.199.59:28015.

Which Rust version is [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 on?

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

The wipe schedule

What happens on [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 87 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 16 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [AU] Facepunch Premium 1?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [AU] Facepunch Premium 1, 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. Its current world has been live for 26 days 3 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 2076371107 is what [AU] Facepunch Premium 1 runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on [AU] Facepunch Premium 1?

No gather rate appears in the name of [AU] Facepunch Premium 1. 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. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Rust's premium status is required to join. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join [AU] Facepunch Premium 1?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.161.199.59:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. Rust's premium status is required to join.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,^q,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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp250
Max players Slots: 250.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to 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 The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Rust's premium status is required to join.

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.