[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small
Online 79.137.98.20:28019 checked 11m 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 19% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 23h. 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 6, 8 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 8 Oct, 07:24 UTC19d ago | 6 | – | running | 2 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:42 UTC33d ago | 6 | held half | 13.8 days | 0 |
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.
Lists and tags
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
You'll find [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live and Official Rust servers, watched. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small mean?
For the server browser, [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small 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; gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore rules make it harsher; mp150 (Max players): Slots: 150; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled on this server; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs169289 (Build): It's on game build 169289; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^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. 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 Staging Hardcore Small rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #4,140 puts [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small in the top 19% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small right now?
The current tally at [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small: 0 players across 150 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 4. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 20:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Server details
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 231, and it never went below 223. At its peak it held 84,000 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 4,695 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small located?
Its name points to Europe, although [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small publishes no region tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 79.137.98.20:28019.
Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small on?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169289. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
The wipe schedule
What happens on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 6 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 8 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small 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. Its current world has been live for 33 days 7 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
The rules
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small run?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small runs a procedural map of 3,750, made by the game.
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small. Nothing on group size is published here. It runs hardcore, Facepunch's most punishing mode. Players can raid and fight one another. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.20:28019. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.