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[EU] Facepunch 5

Online 79.137.98.14:28020 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 10/ 350 slots 3% full −1−8%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 24
Rank#1,116top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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 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 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

191
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

050100150200+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 191, 26 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW27d ago 191 – running 11

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.

Lists and tags

Who runs [EU] Facepunch 5?

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

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

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EU] Facepunch 5: 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 10; Boxes: Official only.

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

For the server browser, [EU] 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): There are 350 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does [EU] Facepunch 5 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [EU] Facepunch 5 at #1,116, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

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

The current tally at [EU] Facepunch 5: 10 players across 350 slots. Averaging 8 players across seven days, it topped out at 24. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 19:00 UTC, averaging 12 players.

Server details

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

[EU] Facepunch 5 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch 5 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 221, with 191 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 131,108 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 6,229 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [EU] Facepunch 5 located?

Its name points to Europe, although [EU] 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 79.137.98.14:28020.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch 5 on?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch 5 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] Facepunch 5 when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 191 players. 26 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

[EU] Facepunch 5 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 21 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch 5 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 807405672 is what [EU] 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] Facepunch 5?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EU] Facepunch 5. 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. It sits in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is what it calls itself: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Facepunch 5?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.14:28020. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

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 There are 350 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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following 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 The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players.

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.