[AE] Facepunch 2
Online 185.179.203.164:28015 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 4% 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 28players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 28, 27 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW28d ago |
28 | – | running | 4 |
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.
Settings and map
Where can you read the rules and settings that apply on [AE] Facepunch 2?
You will find no gather rate in the name of [AE] Facepunch 2. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are allowed. The in-game Official tab lists it. Its own label is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game Facepunch ships. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What is the map on [AE] Facepunch 2?
Size 4,500, seed 1120603257: the game generates the procedural map on [AE] Facepunch 2. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry [AE] Facepunch 2?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is [AE] Facepunch 2: Tutorial servers, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. Filed under these filters on the server list: 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 10; Boxes: Official only.
Which operator stands behind [AE] Facepunch 2?
[AE] Facepunch 2 publishes a playrust.com hostname, as do 124 other servers we track, which points to one operator for them all.
Which tags are attached to [AE] Facepunch 2, and what do they stand for?
These are the tags [AE] Facepunch 2 publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: 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): Rust survival, as standard; mp350 (Max players): 350 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, as in the standard game; v2635 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build on file: 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^m (Monthly): A monthly cycle: wipes fall with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game Facepunch ships; ^t (Tutorial on): Beginners can start with the tutorial from Facepunch; sc2 (Custom tag): This one is not a standard Rust tag; an owner or plugin put it there. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
What should you expect on [AE] Facepunch 2 when wipe day comes?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 28 players on average. 27 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
How often is [AE] Facepunch 2 wiped, and on what schedule?
The only wipe on [AE] Facepunch 2 is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, taken by every Rust server. The world it runs now was made 28 days. Filed in its tags: a monthly wipe schedule.
Population
Where does [AE] Facepunch 2 sit in the rankings?
Filed under rankings: #987 for [AE] Facepunch 2 on seven-day player hours, top 4% overall.
What does the player count on [AE] Facepunch 2 look like?
Filed under live counts: [AE] Facepunch 2, 15 players on 350 slots at present. The seven-day average is 9 players; the peak reached 26. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 15:00 UTC, averaging 16 players.
Operator and status
What Rust version is [AE] Facepunch 2 on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Windows, is what [AE] Facepunch 2 runs. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
What is the uptime and current status of [AE] Facepunch 2?
You will find [AE] Facepunch 2 online as of now. Its reported uptime gives the last restart as roughly 12 hours ago. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 13 September 2026.
Is the performance on [AE] Facepunch 2 good?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 122, with a low of 75. The entity count reached 141,366, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use reached as much as 5,315 MB. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
Where in the world is [AE] Facepunch 2 hosted?
No region is published by [AE] Facepunch 2. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. You will reach it at 185.179.203.164:28015.
Connecting
What is the way onto [AE] Facepunch 2?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 185.179.203.164:28015. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,ts8
On Rust Server Index
Game
gmrust
mp350
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^t
Other
sc2
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.