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
daily · 1 is bestTop 0.6% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 10h. 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 298, 2 hours in, with 73 in the queue.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW12d ago | 298+73 queue | – | running | 44 |
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 wipesQuick answers
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What are the server rules for [EA] Facepunch 2?
No gather rate appears in the name of [EA] Facepunch 2. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. It appears in the Official tab in-game. Its own label is vanilla: the standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
What is the map on [EA] Facepunch 2?
A procedural map of size 4,500 is what [EA] Facepunch 2 runs, generated by the game with seed 334048073. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Who is responsible for [EA] Facepunch 2?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EA] Facepunch 2 and 124 other servers we track, so the same operator probably runs them.
Where can [EA] Facepunch 2 be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that [EA] Facepunch 2 fits are: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Players now: At least 50; Average players: 100+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
How should you interpret the tags on [EA] Facepunch 2?
The game's server browser reads these tags from [EA] Facepunch 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): Survival as standard in Rust; mp300 (Max players): 300 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe per month, alongside the forced wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): The standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Start here with the tutorial from Facepunch if you are new; sc3 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this non-standard Rust tag. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.
Population
How full is [EA] Facepunch 2?
62 of 300 slots are filled on [EA] Facepunch 2 right now. With a peak of 249, the average over seven days is 111 players. In the past 48 hours, the peak activity occurred at 12:00 UTC, averaging 141 players.
What position does [EA] Facepunch 2 hold among Rust servers?
[EA] Facepunch 2 is in the top 0.6% of all ranked servers with a rank of #135 for player hours over the past seven days.
About the server
How reliable is [EA] Facepunch 2, and is it online?
You can find [EA] Facepunch 2 online at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 20 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, a 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for [EA] Facepunch 2?
On Windows, [EA] Facepunch 2 runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
Where can you find [EA] Facepunch 2?
There is no region published by [EA] Facepunch 2. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. It is located at 103.194.164.43:28015.
Is [EA] Facepunch 2 lag-free?
Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 83, and it never dropped below 51. Up to 295,214 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Memory usage reached up to 18,798 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe days
What should you expect on [EA] Facepunch 2 during a wipe?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 298 players. With 73 more waiting in the queue, the latest wipe peaked 2 hours after the wipe.
When does [EA] Facepunch 2 wipe?
Monthly force wipes are the sole wipes on [EA] Facepunch 2. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and it affects all Rust servers. It has been running its current world for 12 days 14 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
How to join
What steps are needed to join [EA] Facepunch 2?
To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 103.194.164.43:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp300,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167781,sc3,ts8
On Rust Player Count
Game
gmrust
mp300
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^t
Other
sc3
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.