[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small
Online 79.137.98.21:28017 checked 10m 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 4% of all ranked servers, and #50 of the quad servers (top 6%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 21h. 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 21, 31 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 29 Oct, 10:16 UTC10h ago | – | – | running | 7 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:47 UTC35d ago | 21 | – | – | 15 |
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.
Server tags
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
The same operator most likely runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live and Official Rust servers, watched. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small mean?
For the server browser, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp250 (Max players): It has 250 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 4; v2636 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2636; cs169627 (Build): The game build is 169627; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside 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. 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 Staging Softcore Small rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #961 puts [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small in the top 4% of all ranked servers. It comes in at #50 among quad servers.
How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small right now?
The current tally at [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small: 17 players across 250 slots. Averaging 10 players across seven days, it topped out at 25. Look at 19:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 21 players on average.
Server details
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small online, and how reliable is it?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 8 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 157, with 129 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 116,000 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 3,865 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small located?
No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, but its name points to Europe. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 79.137.98.21:28017.
Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small on?
Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627 is the version [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe times
What happens on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 21 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 31 hours after it began. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 100% of the time.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Wipes on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small come once a month, alongside 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. 10 hours is when the present world was made. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
Rules and settings
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?
A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 597885 is what [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs, made by the game. 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 Staging Softcore Small?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). It runs softcore, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Join up
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.