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Camera-shy: no banner published [EU] Facepunch 6 Onlineright now +12since yesterday
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[EU] Facepunch 6

Online 79.137.98.24:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 65/ 350 slots 19% full +12+23%against this time yesterday
7-day average30peak 64
Rank#501top 2%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
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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 2% 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 9d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

226
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 226, 26 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago 226 – running 6

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.

Lists and tags

Who runs [EU] Facepunch 6?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch 6 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch 6?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include [EU] Facepunch 6: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters 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 50; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch 6 mean?

For the server browser, [EU] Facepunch 6 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; gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp350 (Max players): There are 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^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.

The players

How does [EU] Facepunch 6 rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank [EU] Facepunch 6 at #501, within the top 2% of ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU] Facepunch 6 right now?

65 players are on [EU] Facepunch 6 at the moment, out of 350 slots. Peak for the week was 64, against an average of 30 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 60 players.

Server facts

Is [EU] Facepunch 6 online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, [EU] Facepunch 6 is online. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. 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 6 run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 207, and it never went below 160. Entities reached a maximum of 177,452: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 6,866 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [EU] Facepunch 6 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch 6, 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 79.137.98.24:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch 6 on?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch 6 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on [EU] Facepunch 6 when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 226 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 26 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch 6?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU] Facepunch 6, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 26 days. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch 6 run?

Generated by the game with seed 423680685, the map on [EU] Facepunch 6 is procedural and 4,500 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 6?

The name of [EU] Facepunch 6 says nothing about gather rate. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It sits in the Official tab in game. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Facepunch 6?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 79.137.98.24:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp350,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.
mp350
Max players There are 350 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.