Rust Player Count
38,965 playing now

Online79.137.98.21:28017checked 13m ago

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small

official quad monthly wipes softcore
Players now 8/ 250 3% full
7-day average 15 peak 57
Rank #866 top 4%
Last wipe 20d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 21d 10h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
01020304009:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020009:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

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 best
RankRank in region
12505007501k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct

Top 4% of all ranked servers, and #47 of the quad servers (top 6%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 21d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence

Wipe-day peak 21 players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

21d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 31 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 24 Sep, 11:47 UTC20d ago 21 – running 15

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
[RU] Friendly Rust – Vanilla Softcore | 2x2 РусскийEU · quad · monthly · 14 on average 9/ 100
[EU] The Rusters | Friendly | Low UpkeepEU · quad · monthly · 6 on average 0/ 100
RustForNoobs.com | Solo Duo Trio Quad | Softcore Monthly | No BEU · quad · monthly · 5 on average 2/ 100
Rusticulous (EU) Solo Beginner friendly, low decay, monthly wipEU · quad · monthly · 5 on average 3/ 125
EU | RustyHost Noob Friendly - Solo/DuoEU · quad · monthly · 3 on average 1/ 50
EU | RustyHost Noob Friendly - Solo/Duo/Trio/QuadEU · quad · monthly · 2 on average 0/ 50

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

What configuration does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small use?

The name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small does not state a gather rate. No more than 4 players in a group (quad). The server runs softcore, A less harsh mode by Facepunch: you keep part of your loot. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You can find it under the Official tab in the game. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What map is used on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs a procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 714955012, 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, lists and filters

Who manages [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

The same operator most likely runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small and 124 other servers we track, which all publish a playrust.com hostname.

Where can [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small: Rust tutorial servers, EU Rust servers and Official Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

What information do the tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small convey?

These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small publishes for the game's server browser: 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules, which are more forgiving; mp250 (Max players): The server has 250 slots; ts4 (Group limit): The maximum team size is 4; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168076 (Build): It runs on game build 168076; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe; ^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. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How many players does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small have?

With 250 slots, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small has 8 players at the moment. With a peak of 57, the average over seven days is 15 players. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 17:00 UTC, with an average of 29 players.

What position does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small hold among Rust servers?

For player hours in the last seven days, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small ranks #866 and is in the top 4% of all ranked servers. It is #47 among quad servers.

Server information

How reliable is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, and is it online?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 21 hours 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 Staging Softcore Small?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168076. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What region does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small serve?

No region tag is published by [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, but 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 79.137.98.21:28017.

What is the performance like on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 118 server fps, with a low of 72. Up to 139,000 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 4,685 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe schedule

What changes on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small on wipe day?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 21 players. 31 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What wipe pattern does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small follow?

Wipes happen once a month on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, along with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping all Rust servers. The present world dates from 20 days 20 hours ago. Its tags declare wipes on a monthly schedule.

How to join

What steps are needed to join [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017. 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 means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^t,gmsoftcore,cs168076,sc2,ts4

On Rust Player Count

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.

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore rules, which are more forgiving.
mp250
Max players The server has 250 slots.
ts4
Group limit The maximum team size is 4.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168076
Build It runs on game build 168076.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Beginners can run through Facepunch's tutorial on this server.

Other

sc2
Custom tag A plugin or the owner created this tag outside Rust's standard set.

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.