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[EU East] Facepunch 5

Online 57.128.211.32:28015 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 115/ 350 slots 33% full −59−34%against this time yesterday
7-day average95peak 333
Rank#185top 0.8%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
05010015020021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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 0.8% 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 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

346
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 22hThu 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 346, 25 hours in, with 224 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW27d ago 346+224 queue – running 41

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 5?

The same operator most likely runs [EU East] Facepunch 5 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU East] Facepunch 5?

You'll find [EU East] Facepunch 5 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters 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 100; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU East] Facepunch 5 mean?

For the server browser, [EU East] Facepunch 5 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; mp350 (Max players): It has 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^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; 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 [EU East] Facepunch 5 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #185 puts [EU East] Facepunch 5 in the top 0.8% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU East] Facepunch 5 right now?

The current tally at [EU East] Facepunch 5: 115 players across 350 slots. Peak for the week was 333, against an average of 95 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 18:00 UTC, averaging 174 players.

About the server

Is [EU East] Facepunch 5 online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [EU East] Facepunch 5 is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 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 5 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 138, with 80 as the lowest. At its peak it held 297,549 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 9,846 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [EU East] Facepunch 5 located?

Its name points to Europe, although [EU East] Facepunch 5 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. You'll find it at 57.128.211.32:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU East] Facepunch 5 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EU East] Facepunch 5 runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on [EU East] Facepunch 5 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 346 players at their busiest. 25 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and 224 more were queued.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU East] Facepunch 5?

[EU East] Facepunch 5 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 27 days 2 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

The rules

Which map does [EU East] Facepunch 5 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 652835522 is what [EU East] Facepunch 5 runs, made by the game. 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 5?

The name of [EU East] Facepunch 5 says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join [EU East] Facepunch 5?

Enter client.connect 57.128.211.32:28015 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 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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp350
Max players It has 350 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 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 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

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.