Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
Observing 46,789 players 11,635 servers 3,178 with someone on 97 fresh wipes in 3 h counted every five minutes
‹ All serversspecimen record
Specimen recordcat. no. 815habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US East] Facepunch Premium 3

Online 40.160.19.217:28015 checked 9m ago

official monthly wipes vanillapremium

Measurements

Players now
9/ 400
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
13
peak 26
Rank
#815
top 4%
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
8d 10h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152009:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040009:0018:0003:0013:0022:0007:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 4% 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 8d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence

286
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 10h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 10h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 286, 9 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW26d ago 286 – 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 places at #815, within the top 4% of ranked servers.

How busy is [US East] Facepunch Premium 3?

Of its 400 slots, [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 is using 9 right now. We counted an average of 13 players in the past week, with 26 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 01:00 UTC, when an average of 17 players were on.

Lists and tags

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

These are the tags [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp400 (Max players): The server has 400 slots; 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): This server runs 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 changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players to start; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags. 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 Premium 3?

The playrust.com hostname that [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 publishes is shared with 124 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

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

[US East] Facepunch Premium 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; Game mode: Premium; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Tutorial on ^t and Premium ^q; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe notes

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

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 286 players. Peak came 9 hours into the latest wipe.

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

Once a month [US East] Facepunch Premium 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. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 14 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 run?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 3 uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 309724331. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

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

No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch Premium 3. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. The Official tab in Rust lists it. By its own description it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Joining requires Rust's premium status. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 run smoothly?

It ran at 201 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 150. Entities peaked at 165,822, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 6,187 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

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

Right now, [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 19 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Premium 3 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch Premium 3, but the name points to North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 40.160.19.217:28015.

Getting in

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Premium 3?

Either enter client.connect 40.160.19.217:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp400
Max players The server has 400 slots.
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 This server runs 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 changed rates, kits or rules: this is 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 Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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.