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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,152habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US West] Facepunch 1

Online 148.113.198.9:28015 checked 13m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
8/ 400
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
7
peak 17
Rank
#1,152
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

20
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

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 20, 46 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW25d ago 20 – 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 1 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US West] Facepunch 1 at #1,152, within the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [US West] Facepunch 1?

[US West] Facepunch 1 holds 8 players at the moment, out of 400 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 7 players and reached a peak of 17. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 01:00 UTC, when an average of 16 players were on.

Lists and tags

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

What the game's server browser reads from [US West] Facepunch 1 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): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp400 (Max players): 400 slots are available; 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): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as 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; sc2 (Custom tag): This tag falls outside Rust's standard set; the owner or a plugin set it. 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 1?

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

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

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

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

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 20 players. 46 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

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

[US West] Facepunch 1 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world it runs now dates from 25 days 23 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does [US West] Facepunch 1 run?

The map on [US West] Facepunch 1 is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 166856579. 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 1?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US West] Facepunch 1. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

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

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for [US West] Facepunch 1. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [US West] Facepunch 1 run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 233 server fps, with 223 as the lowest. Up to 129,516 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 5,762 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

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

Right now, [US West] Facepunch 1 is online. About 4 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is [US West] Facepunch 1 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [US West] Facepunch 1 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. You will find it at 148.113.198.9:28015.

Getting in

How do I join [US West] Facepunch 1?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 148.113.198.9:28015; 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,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 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 This server has no region code.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as 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

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.