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[EU] Facepunch Small 4

Online 79.137.98.19:28020 checked 7m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 10/ 300 slots 3% full +1+12%against this time yesterday
7-day average6peak 20
Rank#1,245top 6%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 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 8d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

25
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 23hThu 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 25, 43 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW26d ago 25 – 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 4?

[EU] Facepunch Small 4 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 4?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EU] Facepunch Small 4: 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; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Small 4 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU] Facepunch Small 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): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp300 (Max players): There are 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

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

A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,245 puts [EU] Facepunch Small 4 in the top 6% of all ranked servers.

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

[EU] Facepunch Small 4 is holding 10 players, with 300 slots in total. Averaging 6 players across seven days, it topped out at 20. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 10 players.

Server facts

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

[EU] Facepunch Small 4 is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch Small 4 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 229, with 208 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 92,468 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 4,686 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Small 4 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Small 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. Connect at 79.137.98.19:28020.

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version [EU] Facepunch Small 4 runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 25 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 43 hours after it began.

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

Wipes on [EU] Facepunch Small 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. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 2 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

The rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Small 4 run?

Generated by the game with seed 168365630, the map on [EU] Facepunch Small 4 is procedural and 3,750 in size. 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 4?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Small 4. 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. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Small 4?

Enter client.connect 79.137.98.19:28020 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 This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp300
Max players There are 300 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players.

Other

sc2
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.