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[EU] Facepunch Premium 4

Online 79.137.98.117:28020 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 9/ 300 slots 3% full +5+135%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 23
Rank#1,125top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152015:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040015:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 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 7d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

297
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 4hThu 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 297, 3 hours in, with 32 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW27d ago 297+32 queue – running 8

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

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Tags

Who runs [EU] Facepunch Premium 4?

The same operator most likely runs [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Premium 4?

You'll find [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 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; 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 [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU] Facepunch Premium 4: 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): Survival, standard Rust style; mp300 (Max players): It has 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; 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; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 at #1,125, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 right now?

The current tally at [EU] Facepunch Premium 4: 9 players across 300 slots. Averaging 8 players across seven days, it topped out at 23. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 18 players.

Server facts

Is [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 36 minutes ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 216, and it never went below 203. Entities reached a maximum of 152,162: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 6,272 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Premium 4, but its name points to Europe. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 79.137.98.117:28020.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 297 players at their busiest. 3 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and 32 more were queued.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Premium 4?

Wipes on [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 27 days 20 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 run?

Generated by the game with seed 69705055, the map on [EU] Facepunch Premium 4 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] Facepunch Premium 4?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Premium 4. Eight players per group: that is 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: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Rust's premium status is required to join. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Premium 4?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.117:28020. 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 mp300,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 Survival, standard Rust style.
mp300
Max players It has 300 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
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.

Mods and access

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

Other

sc2
Custom tag Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it.

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.