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[EU] Facepunch Softcore 1

Online 79.137.98.23:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 100/ 400 slots 25% full +20+25%against this time yesterday
7-day average55peak 167
Rank#307top 1%
Region–no continent published · group quad
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
05010015020019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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
110020030040020 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, and #17 of the quad servers (top 2%). 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 9d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

323
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
37d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 323, 25 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW26d ago 323 – running 52

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.

Tags

Who runs [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

You'll find [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 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; Players now: At least 100; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 mean?

These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 publishes for the browser: 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; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players here; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #307 puts [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 in the top 1% of all ranked servers. Within the quad category, it sits at #17.

How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 right now?

100 players are on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 at the moment, out of 400 slots. Peak for the week was 167, against an average of 55 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 141 players.

Server facts

Is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 4 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 Softcore 1 run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 127, with 64 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 377,160 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 10,509 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1, 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 79.137.98.23:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 on?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 323 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 25 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

[EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Its current world has been live for 26 days. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 run?

A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1936951902 is what [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Players can raid and fight one another. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.23:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^t,gmsoftcore,cs168909,sc2,ts4

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

gmsoftcore
Game mode An easier ruleset, softcore.
mp400
Max players Slots: 400.
ts4
Group limit No team can exceed 4 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Gameplay

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

Other

sc2
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags.

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.