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 3% 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 21d 18h. 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 38, 27 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW13d ago | 38 | – | running | 13 |
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
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from the figures on this pageRules and settings
What are the server rules for [AE] Facepunch 1?
No gather rate appears in the name of [AE] Facepunch 1. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Rust's Official tab includes it. Its own label is vanilla: the standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is running on [AE] Facepunch 1?
A procedural map of size 4,500 is what [AE] Facepunch 1 runs, generated by the game with seed 1996265322. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags, lists and filters
Who operates [AE] Facepunch 1?
Because [AE] Facepunch 1 and 124 other servers we track all publish a playrust.com hostname, they are likely run by the same operator.
Where can [AE] Facepunch 1 be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
These Rust Player Count lists include [AE] Facepunch 1: 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
What is the meaning of the tags on [AE] Facepunch 1?
The game's server browser reads these tags from [AE] Facepunch 1: 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; mp350 (Max players): 350 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): No region code is set; ^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): Beginners can run through Facepunch's tutorial on this server; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner created this tag outside Rust's standard set. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.
Population
How full is [AE] Facepunch 1?
Right now, 8 players are on [AE] Facepunch 1, which has 350 slots. With a peak of 48, the average over seven days is 19 players. In the past 48 hours, the peak activity occurred at 15:00 UTC, averaging 33 players.
Where does [AE] Facepunch 1 sit in the rankings?
For player hours in the last seven days, [AE] Facepunch 1 ranks #770 and is in the top 3% of all ranked servers.
About the server
What is the uptime and reliability of [AE] Facepunch 1?
You can find [AE] Facepunch 1 online at the moment. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 36 hours ago. It was up 86% of the time over the last 7 full days, 144 of 168 hours. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.
What is the Rust version for [AE] Facepunch 1?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what [AE] Facepunch 1 uses. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.
What region does [AE] Facepunch 1 serve?
There is no region published by [AE] Facepunch 1. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 185.179.203.165:28015.
Is [AE] Facepunch 1 lag-free?
The server ran at an average of 119 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 96. The highest entity count was 139,678, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. At its highest, it used 6,112 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, is caused by low fps and increasing entities.
Wipe schedule
What happens on [AE] Facepunch 1 when a wipe occurs?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 38 players. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What wipe pattern does [AE] Facepunch 1 follow?
The only wipes for [AE] Facepunch 1 are monthly, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and it affects all Rust servers. The present world dates from 13 days 7 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Connect to the server
What is the process to join [AE] Facepunch 1?
Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 185.179.203.165:28015. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167781,sc2,ts8
On Rust Player Count
Game
gmrust
mp350
ts8
v2634
cs167781
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.