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Specimen recordcat. no. 891habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] Facepunch Premium 3

Online 79.137.98.117:28015 checked 12m ago

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Measurements

Players now
14/ 350
= 1 player
4% full
7-day average
11
peak 38
Rank
#891
top 4%
Last wipe
28d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152019:0004:0013:0022:0007:0016:00

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 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 7d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

343
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 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 343, 3 hours in, with 86 in the queue.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW28d ago 343+86 queue – running 13

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 [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 at #891, within the top 4% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] Facepunch Premium 3?

[EU] Facepunch Premium 3 holds 14 players at the moment, out of 350 slots. We counted an average of 11 players in the past week, with 38 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 19:00 UTC, when an average of 14 players were on.

Tags

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

What the game's server browser reads from [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 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; mp350 (Max players): 350 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; 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; ^q (Premium): Joining requires Rust's premium status; 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 [EU] Facepunch Premium 3?

124 other servers we track publish the same playrust.com hostname as [EU] Facepunch Premium 3, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

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

These Rust Population lists include [EU] Facepunch Premium 3: Rust tutorial servers, Rust servers in Europe, Official Rust servers, counted and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; 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 schedule

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

Averaged over recent wipes, 343 players were counted at the busiest point. 86 more waited in the queue when the crowd peaked 3 hours into the latest wipe.

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

The force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 takes, once a month. 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 28 days ago. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 run?

[EU] Facepunch Premium 3 uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,500 with seed 444311317. 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] Facepunch Premium 3?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Rust's own Official tab carries 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.

About the server

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

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 201 server fps, with a low of 162. The entity count reached 166,880: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 6,634 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

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

[EU] Facepunch Premium 3 is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 located?

The name of [EU] Facepunch Premium 3 points to Europe, though it publishes no region tag. 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 79.137.98.117:28015.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Premium 3?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 79.137.98.117:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. Joining requires Rust's premium status.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp350,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.
mp350
Max players 350 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
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.

Mods and access

^q
Premium Joining requires Rust's premium status.

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.