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Specimen recordcat. no. 786habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU East] Facepunch Large

Online 57.128.211.27:28015 checked 11m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
11/ 400
= 1 player
3% full
7-day average
14
peak 34
Rank
#786
top 4%
Last wipe
28d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
6d 21h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
01020304022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 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 6d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

247
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 21h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 21h
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 247, 47 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW28d ago 247 – running 9

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 [EU East] Facepunch Large rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU East] Facepunch Large at #786, within the top 4% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU East] Facepunch Large?

[EU East] Facepunch Large holds 11 players at the moment, out of 400 slots. We counted an average of 14 players in the past week, with 34 at the busiest. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 18:00 UTC, averaging 26 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on [EU East] Facepunch Large mean?

These are the tags [EU East] Facepunch Large 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; mp400 (Max players): You can join up to 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): 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; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs [EU East] Facepunch Large?

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

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU East] Facepunch Large?

[EU East] Facepunch Large appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust tutorial servers, Rust servers in Europe, Official Rust servers, counted and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; 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 [EU East] Facepunch Large?

Averaged over recent wipes, 247 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 47 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU East] Facepunch Large?

Once a month [EU East] Facepunch Large 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. The world it runs now dates from 28 days 3 hours ago. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU East] Facepunch Large run?

The map on [EU East] Facepunch Large is procedural, made by the game at size 5,000 from seed 810447223. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU East] Facepunch Large?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [EU East] Facepunch Large states none. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in Rust lists it. The server describes itself as vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does [EU East] Facepunch Large run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU East] Facepunch Large uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [EU East] Facepunch Large run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 227 server fps, with a low of 211. Entities peaked at 171,607, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 6,376 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is [EU East] Facepunch Large online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, [EU East] Facepunch Large is online. About 8 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is [EU East] Facepunch Large located?

No region tag comes from [EU East] Facepunch Large, but the name points to Europe. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 57.128.211.27:28015.

How to join

How do I join [EU East] Facepunch Large?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 57.128.211.27:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,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.
mp400
Max players You can join up to 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build 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.

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.