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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,142habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] Facepunch Small 6

Online 79.137.98.18:28020 checked 10m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
11/ 300
= 1 player
4% full
7-day average
7
peak 20
Rank
#1,142
top 5%
Last wipe
26d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
9d 0h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 5% 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

26
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

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 26, 27 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW26d ago 26 – running 5

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 Small 6 rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, [EU] Facepunch Small 6 places at #1,142, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

The count reads 11 players on [EU] Facepunch Small 6, which has 300 slots. We counted an average of 7 players in the past week, with 20 at the busiest. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 14 players.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Small 6 mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [EU] Facepunch Small 6 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): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp300 (Max players): The server has 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 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): 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; 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 Small 6?

The playrust.com hostname that [EU] Facepunch Small 6 publishes is shared with 124 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

These Rust Population lists include [EU] Facepunch Small 6: 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; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 26 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 27 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

The force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Facepunch Small 6 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. Counted from 26 days 1 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Small 6 run?

[EU] Facepunch Small 6 uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,750 with seed 897126408. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

Nothing in [EU] Facepunch Small 6's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. Rust's own Official tab carries it. Vanilla is the label it uses: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Small 6 run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch Small 6 uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does [EU] Facepunch Small 6 run smoothly?

It ran at 228 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 219. Up to 97,290 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,527 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is [EU] Facepunch Small 6 online, and how reliable is it?

You will find [EU] Facepunch Small 6 online now. 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. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Small 6 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [EU] Facepunch Small 6 is, but its name points to Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 79.137.98.18:28020.

How to join

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Small 6?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 79.137.98.18:28020. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,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.
mp300
Max players The server has 300 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 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 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.

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.