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Specimen recordcat. no. 906habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US East] Facepunch Premium 4

Online 40.160.19.217:28020 checked 8m ago

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Measurements

Players now
6/ 300
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
11
peak 26
Rank
#906
top 4%
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152001:0010:0019:0003:0012:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040001:0010:0019:0003:0012:0022:00

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
12505007501k20 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 7d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

70
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 18h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

020406080+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 70, 8 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 70 – running 8

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 East] Facepunch Premium 4 rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 places at #906, within the top 4% of ranked servers.

How busy is [US East] Facepunch Premium 4?

The count reads 6 players on [US East] Facepunch Premium 4, which has 300 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 11 players and reached a peak of 26. Look at the last 48 hours and 20:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 14 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 mean?

These are the tags [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 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): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): 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): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial gives new players a start here; ^q (Premium): Rust's premium status is required to join; 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 East] Facepunch Premium 4?

A playrust.com hostname comes from [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 and from 124 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [US East] Facepunch Premium 4?

These Rust Population lists include [US East] Facepunch Premium 4: 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 4?

Averaged over recent wipes, 70 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 8 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch Premium 4?

Once a month [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 wipes, and that is with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 27 days 6 hours ago the current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Map and rules

Which map does [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 1687268626, generated by the game, is in use on [US East] Facepunch Premium 4. 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 4?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch Premium 4. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. The server describes itself as vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. Rust's premium status is required to join. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for [US East] Facepunch Premium 4. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 208 server fps, with 168 as the lowest. The entity count reached 149,987: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 5,920 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 online, and how reliable is it?

You will find [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 online now. About 10 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 144 of 168 hours were online, or 86%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [US East] Facepunch Premium 4 is, but its name points to North America. 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 40.160.19.217:28020.

Getting in

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Premium 4?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 40.160.19.217:28020; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. Rust's premium status is required to join.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,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 Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp300
Max players 300 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$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 Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial gives new players a start here.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Rust's premium status is required to join.

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.