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[EU] Facepunch Small 2

Online 79.137.98.8:28020 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 300 slots 1% full +1+71%against this time yesterday
7-day average8peak 21
Rank#1,121top 5%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 5% 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 7d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

20
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 12hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 20, 25 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW27d ago 20 – running 5

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 Small 2?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Small 2 and by 124 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Small 2?

You'll find [EU] Facepunch Small 2 on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 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; Boxes: Official only.

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Small 2 mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from [EU] Facepunch Small 2: 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): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp300 (Max players): There are 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just 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.

Player counts

How does [EU] Facepunch Small 2 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch Small 2 at #1,121, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Small 2 right now?

2 players are on [EU] Facepunch Small 2 at the moment, out of 300 slots. Averaging 8 players across seven days, it topped out at 21. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 21:00 UTC, averaging 15 players.

About the server

Is [EU] Facepunch Small 2 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [EU] Facepunch Small 2 is up and running. About 17 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch Small 2 run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 226 server fps, with a low of 168. Entities reached a maximum of 96,669: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,982 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Small 2 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Small 2, 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. Connect at 79.137.98.8:28020.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Small 2 on?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Small 2 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 Small 2 when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 20 players. 25 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Small 2?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU] Facepunch Small 2, tied to 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. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 12 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Small 2 run?

Generated by the game with seed 176866603, the map on [EU] Facepunch Small 2 is procedural and 3,750 in size. 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 Small 2?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Small 2. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. The server's own word for it is vanilla: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Small 2?

Enter client.connect 79.137.98.8:28020 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,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 Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp300
Max players There are 300 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just 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.