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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,053habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US West] Facepunch Premium 2

Online 148.113.198.86:28015 checked 13m ago

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Measurements

Players now
7/ 400
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
8
peak 22
Rank
#1,053
top 5%
Last wipe
25d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
9d 1h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 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 9d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

25
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

9d 1h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
37d 1h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 25, 26 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW25d ago 25 – running 1

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

Player counts

How does [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 at #1,053, within the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [US West] Facepunch Premium 2?

The count reads 7 players on [US West] Facepunch Premium 2, which has 400 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 8 players and a peak of 22. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 18:00 UTC, when an average of 17 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 is this set of tags: 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 game mode is standard Rust survival; 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): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 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 changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players to start; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; sc2 (Custom tag): This tag falls outside Rust's standard set; the owner or a plugin set it. 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 Premium 2?

The playrust.com hostname that [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 publishes is shared with 124 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [US West] Facepunch Premium 2?

These Rust Population lists include [US West] Facepunch Premium 2: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, counted, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t and Premium ^q; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on [US West] Facepunch Premium 2?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 25 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 26 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch Premium 2?

[US West] Facepunch Premium 2 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Counted from 25 days 23 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Settings

Which map does [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 run?

[US West] Facepunch Premium 2 uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 834980326. 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 Premium 2?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US West] Facepunch Premium 2. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. Rust's own Official tab carries it. The server describes itself as vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Joining requires Rust's premium status. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 201 server fps, with a low of 142. Up to 155,626 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 5,836 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 is online. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is [US West] Facepunch Premium 2 located?

No region tag comes from [US West] Facepunch Premium 2, but the 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. 148.113.198.86:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join [US West] Facepunch Premium 2?

Either enter client.connect 148.113.198.86:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. Joining requires Rust's premium status.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,^q,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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
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 The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build Game build: 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 changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players to start.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.

Other

sc2
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.