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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,086habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US] Facepunch Small 3

Online 148.113.198.8:28020 checked 12m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
10/ 300
= 1 player
3% full
7-day average
8
peak 19
Rank
#1,086
top 5%
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 16h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

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 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 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

23
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 16h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 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 23, 47 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 23 – 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] Facepunch Small 3 rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #1,086 for player hours, which puts [US] Facepunch Small 3 in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [US] Facepunch Small 3?

[US] Facepunch Small 3 holds 10 players at the moment, out of 300 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 8 players and reached a peak of 19. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 21:00 UTC, when an average of 13 players were on.

Lists and tags

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

What the game's server browser reads from [US] Facepunch Small 3 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; mp300 (Max players): The server has 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players to start; 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] Facepunch Small 3?

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

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

[US] Facepunch Small 3 appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only and it will show up.

Wipe notes

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

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 23 players. Peak came 47 hours into the latest wipe.

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

Once a month [US] Facepunch Small 3 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. 27 days 8 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does [US] Facepunch Small 3 run?

A procedural map of size 3,750 from seed 719534390, generated by the game, is in use on [US] Facepunch Small 3. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

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

Nothing in [US] Facepunch Small 3's name says how gather works. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

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

On Windows, [US] Facepunch Small 3 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [US] Facepunch Small 3 run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 276 server fps, with 223 as the lowest. Up to 96,451 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 5,519 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

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

[US] Facepunch Small 3 is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is [US] Facepunch Small 3 located?

The name of [US] Facepunch Small 3 points to North America, though it publishes no region tag. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 148.113.198.8:28020 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join [US] Facepunch Small 3?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 148.113.198.8:28020; 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 mp300,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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp300
Max players The server has 300 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Gameplay

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

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.