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[EU] Facepunch Small 6

Online 79.137.98.18:28020 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 6/ 300 slots 2% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average7peak 20
Rank#1,206top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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 6d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

26
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 21hThu 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 26, 27 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW28d ago 26 – 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Who runs [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

[EU] Facepunch Small 6 and 124 other servers we track publish a playrust.com hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

You'll find [EU] Facepunch Small 6 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; 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 6 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU] Facepunch Small 6: 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; mp300 (Max players): It has 300 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): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following 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.

Player counts

How does [EU] Facepunch Small 6 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [EU] Facepunch Small 6 at #1,206, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Small 6 right now?

6 players are on [EU] Facepunch Small 6 at the moment, out of 300 slots. Averaging 7 players across seven days, it topped out at 20. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 17:00 UTC, averaging 11 players.

Server facts

Is [EU] Facepunch Small 6 online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Facepunch Small 6 is live at the moment. About 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch Small 6 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 228, and it never went below 191. The world carried as many as 96,309 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 4,240 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Small 6 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Small 6, 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. Connect at 79.137.98.18:28020.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Small 6 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EU] Facepunch Small 6 runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [EU] Facepunch Small 6 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 26 players. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

Wipes on [EU] Facepunch Small 6 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 4 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Small 6 run?

The procedural map on [EU] Facepunch Small 6 measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 897126408. 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 6?

The name of [EU] Facepunch Small 6 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. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: 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.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

Enter client.connect 79.137.98.18:28020 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 mp300,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.
mp300
Max players It has 300 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 Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just 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.