Online 79.137.98.9:28015 checked 6m ago
[EU] Facepunch Staging
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 7% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 7d 20h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 20hThu 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 23, 11 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 8 Oct, 07:27 UTC20d ago | 23 | – | running | 5 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:45 UTC34d 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 wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
About the server
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging online, and how reliable is it?
Online now, [EU] Facepunch Staging is up. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 10 hours ago. 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 168 of 168 hours up. On 13 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Does [EU] Facepunch Staging run smoothly?
The last 48 hours average out at 192 server fps; it never dropped below 178. Up to 115,000 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. The memory ceiling was 4,138 MB. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Staging on?
Windows carries Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169488 at [EU] Facepunch Staging. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging located?
Nothing in the tags places [EU] Facepunch Staging, but its name points to Europe. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. The address you connect to is 79.137.98.9:28015.
Server tags
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging 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): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp350 (Max players): The cap is 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2635; cs169488 (Build): The game build here is 169488; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer RakNet is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe comes once a month, with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game unaltered: no rates, kits or rules are changed; ^t (Tutorial on): The tutorial from Facepunch is open to new players; sc2 (Custom tag): You won't find it among Rust's standard tags: the owner or a plugin set it are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Staging?
A single operator most likely stands behind [EU] Facepunch Staging and the 124 other servers we track with the same playrust.com hostname.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging?
You will find [EU] Facepunch Staging on the following Rust Player Stats lists: EU Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, ranked live, Rust tutorial servers and Vanilla Rust servers. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: 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.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Size 4,300, seed 1641015675: that is the procedural map [EU] Facepunch Staging runs, generated by the game. The map repeats with that size and seed, and you can view it on RustMaps from here.
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Nothing in the name of [EU] Facepunch Staging states a gather rate. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. It plays as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The in-game Official tab is where it is listed. Vanilla is its own label: facepunch's game unaltered: no rates, kits or rules are changed. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Player counts
What is the population on [EU] Facepunch Staging at the moment?
The board shows [EU] Facepunch Staging at 9 players, with 350 slots in total. Averaged across seven days: 4 players. The high point: 12. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 9 players.
Where does [EU] Facepunch Staging sit in the rankings?
Ranked #1,489 on seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch Staging is in the top 7% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [EU] Facepunch Staging, once a month. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. 34 days 10 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 [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 38 players. 11 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. By day 8, it had fallen below half when it didn't hold.
Connect
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs169488,sc2,ts8
On Rust Player Stats
Game
gmrust
mp350
ts8
v2635
cs169488
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.