Live 102,658 players 11,891 servers online 337 fresh wipes in 3 hours Refreshed every five minutes

Live Rust population watch: who's up, who's down, who just wiped.

Camera-shy: no banner published [EU] Facepunch 3 Onlineright now +1since yesterday
Celebrity profile

[EU] Facepunch 3

Online 79.137.98.11:28015 checked 15m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla
Get on the guest list

Vital stats

Players now 8/ 400 slots 2% full +1+8%against this time yesterday
7-day average6peak 19
Rank#1,310top 6%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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 6% 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

27
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 27, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW28d ago 27 – running 5

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.

You might also like

Similar servers

The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Lists and tags

Who runs [EU] Facepunch 3?

The same operator most likely runs [EU] Facepunch 3 and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch 3?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [EU] Facepunch 3: 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; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch 3 mean?

For the server browser, [EU] Facepunch 3 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; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^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): 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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [EU] Facepunch 3 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [EU] Facepunch 3 at #1,310, within the top 6% of ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU] Facepunch 3 right now?

The current tally at [EU] Facepunch 3: 8 players across 400 slots. Averaging 6 players across seven days, it topped out at 19. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 13 players.

Server details

Is [EU] Facepunch 3 online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Facepunch 3 is live at the moment. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch 3 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 232 server fps, with a low of 222. Entities reached a maximum of 129,460: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 5,551 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [EU] Facepunch 3 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch 3, 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 79.137.98.11:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch 3 on?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch 3 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What happens on [EU] Facepunch 3 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 27 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 1 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch 3?

Wipes on [EU] Facepunch 3 come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 28 days is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch 3 run?

Generated by the game with seed 1909391378, the map on [EU] Facepunch 3 is procedural and 4,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch 3?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch 3. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It sits in the Official tab in game. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join [EU] Facepunch 3?

Enter client.connect 79.137.98.11:28015 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,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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

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 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.