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 22d 4h. 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 63, 2 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW12d ago | 63 | – | running | 7 |
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
from the figures on this pageRules, map and settings
What configuration does [EU] Facepunch 8 use?
The name of [EU] Facepunch 8 does not state a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Rust's Official tab includes it. Vanilla is its own description: no altered rates, kits or rules: this is the game exactly as Facepunch ships it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is running on [EU] Facepunch 8?
[EU] Facepunch 8 runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1376277816, generated by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and filters
Who is responsible for [EU] Facepunch 8?
Because [EU] Facepunch 8 and 124 other servers we track all publish a playrust.com hostname, they are likely run by the same operator.
Where can [EU] Facepunch 8 be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that [EU] Facepunch 8 fits are: Rust tutorial servers, EU Rust servers, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
What information do the tags on [EU] Facepunch 8 convey?
For the game's server browser, [EU] Facepunch 8 publishes: 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): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It runs on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No altered rates, kits or rules: this is the game exactly as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Beginners can run through Facepunch's tutorial on this server; sc2 (Custom tag): A custom tag, not part of standard Rust: added by the owner or a plugin. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.
Player numbers
How full is [EU] Facepunch 8?
Right now, 27 players are on [EU] Facepunch 8, which has 350 slots. The seven-day average is 25 players, with a peak of 61. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 17:00 UTC, with an average of 43 players.
Where does [EU] Facepunch 8 sit in the rankings?
For player hours in the last seven days, [EU] Facepunch 8 ranks #679 and is in the top 3% of all ranked servers.
About the server
How reliable is [EU] Facepunch 8, and is it online?
[EU] Facepunch 8 is currently online. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 38 minutes ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is used on [EU] Facepunch 8?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch 8 uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What is the location of [EU] Facepunch 8?
Without a region tag from [EU] Facepunch 8, its name points to Europe. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 79.137.98.10:28015.
Is [EU] Facepunch 8 lag-free?
Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 203, and it never dropped below 141. Up to 163,708 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Memory usage reached up to 6,834 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
What changes on [EU] Facepunch 8 on wipe day?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 63 players. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What wipe pattern does [EU] Facepunch 8 follow?
The only wipes for [EU] Facepunch 8 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 12 days 20 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
How to join
What is the process to join [EU] Facepunch 8?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 79.137.98.10:28015. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you.
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.