[EU] Facepunch Staging
Online 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 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 9h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 13.8 daysbetween real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 38players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0%else halves by day 8
Coming wipes
- in 7d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 9hThu 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 23, 11 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8 OCT 2026Thu 8 Oct, 07:27 UTC21d ago |
23 | – | running | 5 |
24 SEP 2026Thu 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.
Map and rules
On [EU] Facepunch Staging, which rules and settings apply?
No gather rate appears in the name [EU] Facepunch Staging. 8 players per group is the default limit. Filed under survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. The in-game Official tab lists it. Vanilla is the server's own description: rates, kits and rules are untouched, so it plays as Facepunch made it. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
Which map is in use on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
[EU] Facepunch Staging runs a procedural map of size 4,300 with seed 1641015675, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps; the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Where does [EU] Facepunch Staging appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
These lists on Rust Server Index take [EU] Facepunch Staging: Tutorial servers, Rust servers filed under Europe, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
Whose server is [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The same operator most likely runs [EU] Facepunch Staging and 124 other tracked servers, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.
What is meant by the tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging 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): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp350 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 350; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, as in the standard game; v2635 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2635; cs169488 (Build): Build on file: 169488; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly cycle: wipes fall with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Rates, kits and rules are untouched, so it plays as Facepunch made it; ^t (Tutorial on): Beginners can start with the tutorial from Facepunch; sc2 (Custom tag): A custom tag: set by the owner or a plugin, not by Rust itself. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
What happens on wipe day at [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Its recent wipes averaged 38 players at peak. 11 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the other cases, numbers dropped below half by day 8.
When does [EU] Facepunch Staging wipe?
With the force wipe, [EU] Facepunch Staging wipes once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, as the force wipe that reaches every Rust server. 34 days 21 hours is when its current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Population
What position does [EU] Facepunch Staging hold among Rust servers?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places [EU] Facepunch Staging at #1,475, among the top 7% of ranked servers.
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging quiet or crowded?
[EU] Facepunch Staging is currently showing 7 players on 350 slots. Filed under seven-day figures: an average of 4 players and a peak of 12. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 19:00 UTC, averaging 9 players.
Server facts
What version does [EU] Facepunch Staging use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169488, on Windows, is what [EU] Facepunch Staging runs. Steam keeps your game updated, but the protocol must match for you to join.
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging reachable, and does it stay up?
Right now [EU] Facepunch Staging is up and running. About 21 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. Of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were up, 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
How well does [EU] Facepunch Staging perform?
The last 48 hours give an average of 192 server fps and a floor of 180. The entity count reached 114,000, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The peak memory figure stood at 4,138 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
What is the location of [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Staging points to Europe, though no region tag is published. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 79.137.98.9:28015.
Joining the server
How can you connect to [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs169488,sc2,ts8
On Rust Server Index
Game
gmrust
mp350
ts8
v2635
cs169488
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.