Online 185.179.203.164:28015 checked 9m ago
[AE] Facepunch 2
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 350 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 5% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 6d 12h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 6d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 34d 12hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 28, 27 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW28d ago | 28 | – | running | 4 |
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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
About the server
Is [AE] Facepunch 2 online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at [AE] Facepunch 2: online as you read this. About 36 minutes ago is when it restarted, judging by its reported uptime. The last 7 full days put it at 167 of 168 hours up, 99% uptime. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does [AE] Facepunch 2 run smoothly?
Averaging 120 server fps across the last 48 hours, it held a floor of 75. Up to 139,844 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. The memory ceiling was 5,398 MB. A climbing entity count plus low fps: that is lag, as players experience it.
Which Rust version is [AE] Facepunch 2 on?
On Windows, [AE] Facepunch 2 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is [AE] Facepunch 2 located?
No region is published by [AE] Facepunch 2. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. The address you connect to is 185.179.203.164:28015.
Server tags
What do the server tags on [AE] Facepunch 2 mean?
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): Rust survival as standard; mp350 (Max players): The cap is 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): Game protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags are the tags [AE] Facepunch 2 publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. You will also find its current players, its queue and the age of its world in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Who runs [AE] Facepunch 2?
One operator most likely runs [AE] Facepunch 2 and the 124 other servers we track that share its playrust.com hostname.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include [AE] Facepunch 2?
You will find [AE] Facepunch 2 on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Official Rust servers, ranked live, Rust tutorial servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on [AE] Facepunch 2?
The procedural map on [AE] Facepunch 2 is size 4,500, generated by the game from seed 1120603257. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on [AE] Facepunch 2?
No gather rate appears in the name of [AE] Facepunch 2. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. build, gather and raid in the standard game: that is the survival game mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Official inside the game. Vanilla is its own label: the game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Population
How full is [AE] Facepunch 2 right now?
5 of 350 slots are filled on [AE] Facepunch 2 right now. Seven days back gives an average of 9 players and a peak of 26. It drew its biggest crowd of the last 48 hours at 19:00 UTC: 19 players on average.
Where does [AE] Facepunch 2 sit in the rankings?
The last seven days put [AE] Facepunch 2 at #1,008 on player hours: top 5% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on [AE] Facepunch 2?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [AE] Facepunch 2, once a month. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. 28 days 13 hours ago is when its current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on [AE] Facepunch 2?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 28 players on average. The crowd reached its peak 27 hours after the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join [AE] Facepunch 2?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 185.179.203.164:28015. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,ts8
On Rust Player Stats
Game
gmrust
mp350
ts8
v2635
cs168909
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.