[US East] Facepunch 3
Online 40.160.19.17:28015 checked 13m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 4% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 34 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago | 38 | – | running | 5 |
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.
Quick answers
Population
How does [US East] Facepunch 3 rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place [US East] Facepunch 3 at #829, within the top 4% of all ranked servers.
How busy is [US East] Facepunch 3?
The count reads 10 players on [US East] Facepunch 3, which has 400 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 13 players and reached a peak of 26. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 23:00 UTC, averaging 23 players.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on [US East] Facepunch 3 mean?
What the game's server browser reads from [US East] Facepunch 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; mp400 (Max players): You can join up to 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $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 is available here for new players to start; sc3 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.
Who runs [US East] Facepunch 3?
A playrust.com hostname comes from [US East] Facepunch 3 and from 124 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include [US East] Facepunch 3?
[US East] Facepunch 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. 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on [US East] Facepunch 3?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 38 players. 34 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch 3?
The force wipe is the only wipe [US East] Facepunch 3 takes, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 26 days ago. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.
Map and rules
Which map does [US East] Facepunch 3 run?
A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 436502457, generated by the game, is in use on [US East] Facepunch 3. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on [US East] Facepunch 3?
No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch 3. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. The Official tab in Rust lists it. By its own description it is vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
Server details
Which version of Rust does [US East] Facepunch 3 run?
On Windows, [US East] Facepunch 3 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does [US East] Facepunch 3 run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 249 server fps, with a low of 218. Up to 144,789 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 6,616 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Is [US East] Facepunch 3 online, and how reliable is it?
You will find [US East] Facepunch 3 online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is [US East] Facepunch 3 located?
The name of [US East] Facepunch 3 points to North America, though it publishes no region tag. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 40.160.19.17:28015.
Getting in
How do I join [US East] Facepunch 3?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 40.160.19.17:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.