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 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 21d 16h. 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 23, 11 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 8 Oct, 07:27 UTC6d ago | 23 | – | running | 5 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:45 UTC20d 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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageRules, map and settings
What are the server rules for [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Staging 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. You can find it under the Official tab in the game. Its own label is vanilla: no altered rates, kits or rules: this is the game exactly as Facepunch ships it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
What map is used on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
A procedural map of size 4,300 is what [EU] Facepunch Staging runs, generated by the game with seed 1641015675. 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 [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Because [EU] Facepunch Staging and 124 other servers we track all publish a playrust.com hostname, they are likely run by the same operator.
Where can [EU] Facepunch Staging be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
These Rust Player Count lists include [EU] Facepunch Staging: Rust tutorial servers, EU Rust servers, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: 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.
What is the meaning of the tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging 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; gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp350 (Max players): Capacity: 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2635 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2635 to connect; cs167916 (Build): It runs on game build 167916; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present; ^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): The owner or a plugin added this non-standard Rust tag. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.
Player count
How full is [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Right now, 2 players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging, which has 350 slots. The average player count for the last seven days is 7, and the highest point was 23. In the past 48 hours, the peak activity occurred at 15:00 UTC, averaging 17 players.
What position does [EU] Facepunch Staging hold among Rust servers?
For player hours in the last seven days, [EU] Facepunch Staging ranks #1,242 and is in the top 6% of all ranked servers.
About the server
What is the uptime and reliability of [EU] Facepunch Staging?
[EU] Facepunch Staging is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 14 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?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167916 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch Staging uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What region does [EU] Facepunch Staging serve?
Its name points to Europe, even though [EU] Facepunch Staging publishes no region tag. 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 79.137.98.9:28015.
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging lag-free?
Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 140, and it never dropped below 126. Up to 118,000 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Peak memory use was 4,625 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Wipe schedule
What happens on [EU] Facepunch Staging when a wipe occurs?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 38 players. 11 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest. Half that peak was maintained until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. If not, the crowd went below half by day 8.
What wipe pattern does [EU] Facepunch Staging follow?
Wipes happen once a month on [EU] Facepunch Staging, 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 14 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Connect to the server
What is the process to join [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015. 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?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167916,sc2,ts8
On Rust Player Count
Game
gmrust
mp350
ts8
v2635
cs167916
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.