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Specimen recordcat. no. 651habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US East] Facepunch Premium 2

Online 40.160.19.218:28015 checked 1h ago

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Measurements

Players now
13/ 400
= 1 player
3% full
7-day average
21
peak 55
Rank
#651
top 3%
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
8d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
01020304019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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
12505007501k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 3% 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 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

396
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 0h
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 396, 3 hours in, with 40 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW27d ago 396+40 queue – 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 Premium 2 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 at #651, within the top 3% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [US East] Facepunch Premium 2?

The count reads 13 players on [US East] Facepunch Premium 2, which has 400 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 21 players and reached a peak of 55. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 36 players.

Lists and tags

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

What the game's server browser reads from [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 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): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following 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): You need Rust's premium status 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 2?

The playrust.com hostname that [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 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 2?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 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. Look for it under these filters on the server 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; 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 Premium 2?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 396 players. Peaking 3 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd had 40 more waiting in the queue.

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

Once a month [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 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. Counted from 27 days ago, that is how long the current world has stood. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

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

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 2071425264, generated by the game, is in use on [US East] Facepunch Premium 2. 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 Premium 2?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US East] Facepunch Premium 2. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You need Rust's premium status to join. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

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

On Windows, [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 run smoothly?

It ran at 196 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 151. Entities peaked at 193,243, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 7,307 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

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

[US East] Facepunch Premium 2 is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 4 hours ago. 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 East] Facepunch Premium 2 located?

No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch Premium 2, but the 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. Connect at 40.160.19.218:28015.

How to join

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

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 40.160.19.218:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You need Rust's premium status to join.

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 You can join up to 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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$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 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 You need Rust's premium status 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.