[EU] Facepunch Staging
Online 79.137.98.9:28015 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 7% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 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 23, 11 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 8 Oct, 07:27 UTC20d ago | 23 | – | running | 5 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:45 UTC34d ago | 54 | halved by day 8 | 13.8 days | 11 |
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.
Tags
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The same operator most likely runs [EU] Facepunch Staging and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [EU] Facepunch Staging: Rust tutorial servers, European Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, watched and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it 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 Staging mean?
For the server browser, [EU] Facepunch Staging 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): Survival, standard Rust style; mp350 (Max players): Slots: 350; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs169488 (Build): Game build: 169488; 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; ^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): 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.
Population
How does [EU] Facepunch Staging rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,496 puts [EU] Facepunch Staging in the top 7% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging right now?
4 players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging at the moment, out of 350 slots. Averaging 4 players across seven days, it topped out at 12. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 19:00 UTC, averaging 9 players.
Server details
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, [EU] Facepunch Staging is up and running. About 6 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Does [EU] Facepunch Staging run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 191 server fps, with a low of 178. The world carried as many as 115,000 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,138 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging located?
Its name points to Europe, although [EU] Facepunch Staging publishes no region tag. 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 79.137.98.9:28015.
Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Staging on?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169488. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on [EU] Facepunch Staging when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 38 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 11 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 8.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for [EU] Facepunch Staging, 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. Its current world has been live for 34 days 9 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
The rules
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Staging run?
Generated by the game with seed 1641015675, the map on [EU] Facepunch Staging is procedural and 4,300 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 Staging?
No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Staging. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Look in Rust's in-game Official tab and it is there. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Enter client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.