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Specimen recordcat. no. 227habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[US East] Facepunch Premium 1

Online 40.160.19.51:28015 checked 11m ago

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Measurements

Players now
51/ 400
= 5 players
13% full
7-day average
80
peak 166
Rank
#227
top 1%
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
9d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
05010015020019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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
110020030040020 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 1% 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

399
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

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

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 399, 3 hours in, with 223 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago 399+223 queue – running 27

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 1 rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #227 for player hours, which puts [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 in the top 1% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [US East] Facepunch Premium 1?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 1 holds 51 players at the moment, out of 400 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 80 players and reached a peak of 166. Look at the last 48 hours and 01:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 159 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 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): 400 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): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as 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; ^q (Premium): You need Rust's premium status to join; sc2 (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 Premium 1?

The playrust.com hostname that [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 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 1?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 1 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 50; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on [US East] Facepunch Premium 1?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 399 players. At the peak of the latest wipe, 3 hours in, 223 more were queued.

What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch Premium 1?

Once a month [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 wipes, and that is with the force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. 26 days 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 1 run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 from seed 1377699477, generated by the game, is in use on [US East] Facepunch Premium 1. 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 1?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. 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. By its own description it is vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. You need Rust's premium status to join. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 run?

On Windows, [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 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 1 run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 136 server fps, with a low of 82. The entity count reached 305,262: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 9,772 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 online, and how reliable is it?

[US East] Facepunch Premium 1 is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 5 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 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. 40.160.19.51:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join [US East] Facepunch Premium 1?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 40.160.19.51:28015; 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 400 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 The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as 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.

Mods and access

^q
Premium You need Rust's premium status to join.

Other

sc2
Custom tag The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust.

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.