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[EU East] Facepunch 2

Online 57.128.211.30:28015 checked 2h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 24/ 400 slots 6% full −8−24%against this time yesterday
7-day average23peak 67
Rank#618top 3%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 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 7d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

392
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 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 392, 21 hours in, with 62 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:45 UTC FW27d ago 392+62 queue – running 19

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 [EU East] Facepunch 2?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU East] Facepunch 2 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU East] Facepunch 2?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [EU East] Facepunch 2: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU East] Facepunch 2 mean?

These are the tags [EU East] Facepunch 2 publishes for the browser: 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; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^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. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does [EU East] Facepunch 2 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU East] Facepunch 2 at #618, in the top 3% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU East] Facepunch 2 right now?

24 players are on [EU East] Facepunch 2 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 67, against an average of 23 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 42 players.

About the server

Is [EU East] Facepunch 2 online, and how reliable is it?

[EU East] Facepunch 2 is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 4 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [EU East] Facepunch 2 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 223 server fps, with a low of 193. Entities reached a maximum of 165,586: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 7,538 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [EU East] Facepunch 2 located?

No region tag comes from [EU East] Facepunch 2, but its name points to Europe. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 57.128.211.30:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU East] Facepunch 2 on?

On Windows, [EU East] Facepunch 2 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [EU East] Facepunch 2 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 392 players. With 62 in the queue, the latest wipe's crowd topped out 21 hours after the wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU East] Facepunch 2?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU East] Facepunch 2, 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. 27 days 1 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU East] Facepunch 2 run?

Generated by the game with seed 528795, the map on [EU East] Facepunch 2 is procedural and 4,500 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU East] Facepunch 2?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EU East] Facepunch 2. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It sits in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join [EU East] Facepunch 2?

Enter client.connect 57.128.211.30:28015 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,^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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp400
Max players Slots: 400.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.