[EU] Facepunch Small 5
Online 79.137.98.18:28015 checked 8m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 5% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 17h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 32, 2 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago | 32 | – | running | 7 |
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Small 5?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Small 5 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Small 5?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EU] Facepunch Small 5: 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; 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 Small 5 mean?
For the server browser, [EU] Facepunch Small 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): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp300 (Max players): It has 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 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): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just 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. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Population
How does [EU] Facepunch Small 5 rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,192 puts [EU] Facepunch Small 5 in the top 5% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Small 5 right now?
[EU] Facepunch Small 5 is holding 6 players, with 300 slots in total. Averaging 7 players across seven days, it topped out at 16. Look at 20:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 14 players on average.
About the server
Is [EU] Facepunch Small 5 online, and how reliable is it?
[EU] Facepunch Small 5 is live at the moment. About 11 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does [EU] Facepunch Small 5 run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 229, with 219 as the lowest. At its peak it held 99,868 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 4,430 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Small 5 located?
Its name points to Europe, although [EU] Facepunch Small 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. Connect at 79.137.98.18:28015.
Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Small 5 on?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Small 5 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on [EU] Facepunch Small 5 when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 32 players. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Small 5?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU] Facepunch Small 5, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 7 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Rules and settings
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Small 5 run?
The procedural map on [EU] Facepunch Small 5 measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 1021251229. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Small 5?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Small 5 says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. 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] Facepunch Small 5?
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.18:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.