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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,134habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US West] Facepunch 3

Online 148.113.198.10:28015 checked 9m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
3/ 400
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
7
peak 18
Rank
#1,134
top 5%
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152000:0009:0018:0003:0012:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040000:0009:0018:0003:0012:0022:00

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 5% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence

21
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 19h
Thu 3 Dec, 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, 26 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 21 – 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does [US West] Facepunch 3 rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, [US West] Facepunch 3 places at #1,134, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

How busy is [US West] Facepunch 3?

Of its 400 slots, [US West] Facepunch 3 is using 3 right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 7 players and reached a peak of 18. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 03:00 UTC, averaging 15 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on [US West] Facepunch 3 mean?

These are the tags [US West] Facepunch 3 publishes, as read by 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): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp400 (Max players): You can join up to 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial gives new players a start here; sc3 (Custom tag): This tag falls outside Rust's standard set; the owner or a plugin set it. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Who runs [US West] Facepunch 3?

124 other servers we track publish the same playrust.com hostname as [US West] Facepunch 3, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [US West] Facepunch 3?

These Rust Population lists include [US West] Facepunch 3: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, counted, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; 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.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on [US West] Facepunch 3?

Averaged over recent wipes, 21 players were counted at the busiest point. 26 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch 3?

Once a month [US West] Facepunch 3 wipes, and that is with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. Counted from 27 days 5 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Map and rules

Which map does [US West] Facepunch 3 run?

The map on [US West] Facepunch 3 is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 822990378. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [US West] Facepunch 3?

Nothing in [US West] Facepunch 3's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Rust's own Official tab carries it. Vanilla is the label it uses: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [US West] Facepunch 3 run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US West] Facepunch 3 uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [US West] Facepunch 3 run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 232 server fps, with 205 as the lowest. The entity count reached 136,172: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 5,878 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is [US West] Facepunch 3 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [US West] Facepunch 3 is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is [US West] Facepunch 3 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [US West] Facepunch 3 is, but its name points to North America. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 148.113.198.10:28015.

Getting in

How do I join [US West] Facepunch 3?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 148.113.198.10:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc3,ts8

On Rust Population

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

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp400
Max players You can join up to 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial gives new players a start here.

Other

sc3
Custom tag This tag falls outside Rust's standard set; the owner or a plugin set it.

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.