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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,065habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US West] Facepunch 4

Online 148.113.198.14:28015 checked 8m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
5/ 350
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
8
peak 22
Rank
#1,065
top 5%
Last wipe
28d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
6d 16h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152003:0012:0022:0007:0016:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040003:0012:0022:0007:0016:0001:00

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 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 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 6d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

21
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 16h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 16h
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, 43 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW28d 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 4 rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, [US West] Facepunch 4 places at #1,065, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

How busy is [US West] Facepunch 4?

The count reads 5 players on [US West] Facepunch 4, which has 350 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 8 players and reached a peak of 22. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 23:00 UTC, when an average of 12 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [US West] Facepunch 4 mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags [US West] Facepunch 4 publishes: 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; mp350 (Max players): The server has 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $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 is available here for new players to start; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs [US West] Facepunch 4?

124 other servers we track publish the same playrust.com hostname as [US West] Facepunch 4, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [US West] Facepunch 4?

These Rust Population lists include [US West] Facepunch 4: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, counted, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by 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 and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on [US West] Facepunch 4?

Averaged over recent wipes, 21 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 43 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch 4?

Once a month [US West] Facepunch 4 wipes, and that is with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 28 days 9 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Settings

Which map does [US West] Facepunch 4 run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 664932134, generated by the game, is in use on [US West] Facepunch 4. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [US West] Facepunch 4?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [US West] Facepunch 4 states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it in the Official tab in game. The server describes itself as vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does [US West] Facepunch 4 run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US West] Facepunch 4 uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [US West] Facepunch 4 run smoothly?

It ran at 231 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 208. Entities peaked at 129,381, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 5,559 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is [US West] Facepunch 4 online, and how reliable is it?

You will find [US West] Facepunch 4 online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 13 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is [US West] Facepunch 4 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [US West] Facepunch 4 is, but its name points to North America. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 148.113.198.14:28015.

Getting in

How do I join [US West] Facepunch 4?

Either enter client.connect 148.113.198.14:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,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.
mp350
Max players The server has 350 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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 is available here for new players to start.

Other

sc2
Custom tag The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust.

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.