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[EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small

Online 79.137.98.21:28015 checked 8m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 250 slots 0% full −1−38%against this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 8
Rank#2,596top 12%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe10h agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeakWipe
0246821:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 10:15 UTCWIPE

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

Server fpsWipe
02040608021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00Wiped Thu 29 Oct, 10:15 UTCWIPE

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 12% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

35 days
usual gap
between real wipes
7
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 26

Coming wipes

6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 32 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 29 Oct, 10:15 UTC10h ago – – running 1
Thu 24 Sep, 11:45 UTC35d ago 7 – – 4

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 Staging Primitive Small?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive 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 Primitive Small?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Primitive Rust servers, watched live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Primitive; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Boxes: Official only.

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

For the server browser, [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive 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; gmprimitive (Game mode): Bows, spears and melee only, with no guns: primitive; mp250 (Max players): It has 250 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2636 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2636; cs169627 (Build): It's on game build 169627; 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; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag, which isn't standard Rust. 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 Staging Primitive Small rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small at #2,596, in the top 12% of all ranked servers.

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

The current tally at [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small: 1 players across 250 slots. Averaging 1 players across seven days, it topped out at 8. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.

About the server

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

Right now, [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive 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 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 60, and it never went below 60. At its peak it held 82,000 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,212 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small located?

Its name points to Europe, although [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small publishes no region tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 79.137.98.21:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small on?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small runs Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

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

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 7 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 32 hours after it began. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 26.

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

Wipes on [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small follow a every 5 weeks on Thursday at 10:15 UTC pattern. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 10 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 Staging Primitive Small run?

A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 1756228292 is what [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small 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 Staging Primitive Small?

The name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs primitive, bows, spears and melee, with no guns. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging Primitive Small?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.21:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2636,^m,^t,gmprimitive,cs169627,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

gmprimitive
Game mode Bows, spears and melee only, with no guns: primitive.
mp250
Max players It has 250 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2636
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2636.
cs169627
Build It's on game build 169627.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here.

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.