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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,221habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US East] Facepunch Small 2

Online 40.160.19.13:28015 checked 12m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
4/ 300
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
6
peak 17
Rank
#1,221
top 6%
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
9d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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 6% 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

22
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

9d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
37d 0h
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 22, 32 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:39 UTC FW26d ago 22 – running 3

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 East] Facepunch Small 2 rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #1,221 for player hours, which puts [US East] Facepunch Small 2 in the top 6% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [US East] Facepunch Small 2?

Of its 300 slots, [US East] Facepunch Small 2 is using 4 right now. We counted an average of 6 players in the past week, with 17 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 15:00 UTC, when an average of 15 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on [US East] Facepunch Small 2 mean?

These are the tags [US East] Facepunch Small 2 publishes, as read by the game's server browser: 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; mp300 (Max players): 300 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 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): 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 gives new players a start here; 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 East] Facepunch Small 2?

A playrust.com hostname comes from [US East] Facepunch Small 2 and from 124 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [US East] Facepunch Small 2?

[US East] Facepunch Small 2 appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on [US East] Facepunch Small 2?

Averaged over recent wipes, 22 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 32 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch Small 2?

The force wipe is the only wipe [US East] Facepunch Small 2 takes, 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 26 days ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Settings

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Small 2 run?

The map on [US East] Facepunch Small 2 is procedural, made by the game at size 3,750 from seed 130446374. 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 East] Facepunch Small 2?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [US East] Facepunch Small 2 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. 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 play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [US East] Facepunch Small 2 run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for [US East] Facepunch Small 2. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [US East] Facepunch Small 2 run smoothly?

It ran at 235 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 217. The entity count reached 100,380: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 4,379 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is [US East] Facepunch Small 2 online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [US East] Facepunch Small 2 is online. About 5 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Small 2 located?

The name of [US East] Facepunch Small 2 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. 40.160.19.13:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Small 2?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 40.160.19.13:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting 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 Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp300
Max players 300 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 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 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 gives new players a start here.

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.