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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,083habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US West] Facepunch Premium 1

Online 148.113.198.88:28015 checked 11m ago

official monthly wipes vanillapremium

Measurements

Players now
7/ 400
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
8
peak 20
Rank
#1,083
top 5%
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 15h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152004:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040004:0013:0022:0007:0016:0002:00

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 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 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 15h. The force wipe · high confidence

44
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 15h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 15h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

020406080+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 44, 34 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 44 – running 7

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 Premium 1 rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #1,083 for player hours, which puts [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [US West] Facepunch Premium 1?

Of its 400 slots, [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 is using 7 right now. Seven days of counting give an average of 8 players and a peak of 20. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 13 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 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; mp400 (Max players): 400 slots are available; 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): Game build: 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 is available here for new players to start; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to join; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Who runs [US West] Facepunch Premium 1?

124 other servers we track publish the same playrust.com hostname as [US West] Facepunch Premium 1, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [US West] Facepunch Premium 1?

These Rust Population lists include [US West] Facepunch Premium 1: 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 notes

What does wipe day look like on [US West] Facepunch Premium 1?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 44 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 34 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [US West] Facepunch Premium 1?

Once a month [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 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. Counted from 27 days 9 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 run?

The map on [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 59873183. 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 1?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. Vanilla is the label it uses: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. You need Rust's premium status to join. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 run smoothly?

It ran at 231 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 217. The entity count reached 152,747: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 6,255 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 online, and how reliable is it?

You will find [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 online now. About 14 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. 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 Premium 1 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [US West] Facepunch Premium 1 is, but its name points to North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 148.113.198.88:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join [US West] Facepunch Premium 1?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 148.113.198.88:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You need Rust's premium status to join.

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 Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp400
Max players 400 slots are available.
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 Game build: 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 is available here for new players to start.

Mods and access

^q
Premium You need Rust's premium status to join.

Other

sc2
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags.

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.