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[EU East] Facepunch 1

Online 57.128.211.28:28020 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 12/ 400 slots 3% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 23
Rank#1,154top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

390
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 23hThu 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 390, 2 hours in, with 60 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW26d ago 390+60 queue – running 21

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 [EU East] Facepunch 1?

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

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU East] Facepunch 1?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [EU East] Facepunch 1: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; 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; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU East] Facepunch 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; gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp400 (Max players): There are 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; 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): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside 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; sc3 (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 [EU East] Facepunch 1 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU East] Facepunch 1 at #1,154, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

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

12 players are on [EU East] Facepunch 1 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 23, against an average of 7 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 17:00 UTC, averaging 15 players.

Server details

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

[EU East] Facepunch 1 is live at the moment. About 6 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. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [EU East] Facepunch 1 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 230, with 194 as the lowest. At its peak it held 134,614 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 6,055 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [EU East] Facepunch 1 located?

Its name points to Europe, although [EU East] Facepunch 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 57.128.211.28:28020.

Which Rust version is [EU East] Facepunch 1 on?

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

Wipe days

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 390 players at their busiest. With 60 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 2 hours after the wipe.

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

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU East] Facepunch 1, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 26 days 1 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU East] Facepunch 1 run?

The procedural map on [EU East] Facepunch 1 measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1656653964. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

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

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU East] Facepunch 1. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It sits in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join [EU East] Facepunch 1?

Enter client.connect 57.128.211.28:28020 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,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc3,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.
mp400
Max players There are 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
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 The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside 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

sc3
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.