[EU] Facepunch Staging
79.137.98.9:28015 checked 10m ago
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 5% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 13.8 days between real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 38 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0% else halves by day 8
Coming wipes
- 22d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
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 UTC 5d ago | 23 | – | running | 5 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:45 UTC 19d 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.
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Quick answers
Player Count
[EU] Facepunch Staging ranking: what position does it hold?
Over the last seven days, [EU] Facepunch Staging ranks #1,198 in player hours, which is in the top 5% of ranked servers.
What is the player count on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
[EU] Facepunch Staging: 5 players now, with 350 slots available. The seven-day average player count stands at 8, and the highest point was 23. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 15:00 UTC, when the average player count was 18.
Tags and Filters
What is the meaning of the tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
For [EU] Facepunch Staging, the game's server browser reads the following 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): Standard survival gameplay; mp350 (Max players): Slots: 350; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635: join only if your game matches this version; cs167779 (Build): Game build number: 167779; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use; $r? (Region code): Region code not set; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month on the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch ships the game: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is enabled for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): A non-standard tag, set by the owner or a plugin. Current players, queue and world creation time come from the tags and appear at the top of this page.
[EU] Facepunch Staging operator: who is it?
124 other servers we track also publish a playrust.com hostname, as does [EU] Facepunch Staging, so the same operator most likely runs them.
Where does [EU] Facepunch Staging appear in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include [EU] Facepunch Staging are: Rust tutorial servers, Rust servers in Europe, Official Rust servers and Vanilla-tagged Rust servers. On the server list, the filters that bring it up are: 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.
Server Overview
What Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Staging on?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167779. Joining requires the same protocol; Steam updates your game for you.
How smooth is the performance on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Over 48 hours, it averaged 152 server fps; the lowest was 126. It held up to 118,000 entities: everything from buildings to deployables in the world. The maximum memory used was 5,668 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
How reliable is [EU] Facepunch Staging and is it online?
At the moment, [EU] Facepunch Staging is up. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 18 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, BestRustServers.xyz saw it for the first time.
What is the location of [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Its name points to Europe, though [EU] Facepunch Staging publishes no region tag. BestRustServers.xyz does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 79.137.98.9:28015 is its address.
Rules & Map
Which map is used on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
A procedural map of size 4,300 and seed 1641015675 is what [EU] Facepunch Staging runs, generated by the game. The map can be viewed on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed fix it.
[EU] Facepunch Staging rules and settings: what are they?
No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Staging. The default cap of 8 players per group is in force. Listed as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Raids and PvP are on. Rust's Official tab includes this server. Vanilla is the label it uses: as Facepunch ships the game: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC protection is on.
Wipe Cycle
On what schedule does [EU] Facepunch Staging wipe?
The force wipe is the one monthly wipe on [EU] Facepunch Staging. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe that takes every Rust server. Its world dates from 19 days 17 hours. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one month.
What happens on wipe day on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 38 players. 11 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes where it did not hold, half the peak was lost by day 8.
Connect
What is the process to join [EU] Facepunch Staging?
To connect, type client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015 in the F1 console. Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and joins you.
Server tags
Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167779,sc2,ts8
On BestRustServers.xyz
- 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 Standard survival gameplay.
mp350- Max players Slots: 350.
ts8- Group limit Default team size: 8.
v2635- Protocol Protocol 2635: join only if your game matches this version.
cs167779- Build Game build number: 167779.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use.
$r?- Region code Region code not set.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly This server wipes once a month on the force wipe.
Difficulty
^v- Vanilla As Facepunch ships the game: rates, kits and rules unchanged.
Gameplay
^t- Tutorial on The Facepunch tutorial is enabled for new players.
Other
sc2- Custom tag A non-standard tag, set by the owner or a plugin.
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.