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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,128habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] Facepunch Small 3

Online 79.137.98.19:28015 checked 11m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
11/ 300
= 1 player
4% full
7-day average
8
peak 23
Rank
#1,128
top 5%
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 3h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040016:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

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 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 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 7d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

98
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 3h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 3h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0255075100+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 98, 2 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 98 – 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 3 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch Small 3 at #1,128, within the top 5% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] Facepunch Small 3?

[EU] Facepunch Small 3 holds 11 players at the moment, out of 300 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 8 players and reached a peak of 23. Look at the last 48 hours and 18:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 17 players.

Tags

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

The game's server browser reads the tags [EU] Facepunch Small 3 publishes: 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): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^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; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags. 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] Facepunch Small 3?

A playrust.com hostname comes from [EU] Facepunch Small 3 and from 124 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.

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

On Rust Population, [EU] Facepunch Small 3 is filed under these lists: 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 notes

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

Averaged over recent wipes, 98 players were counted at the busiest point. 2 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

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

[EU] Facepunch Small 3 wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days 22 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Small 3 run?

A procedural map of size 3,750 from seed 921433461, generated by the game, is in use on [EU] Facepunch Small 3. 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 3?

Nothing in [EU] Facepunch Small 3's name says how gather works. No limit is set beyond the standard 8 players per group. 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. The server describes itself as vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

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

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Small 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 Small 3 run smoothly?

It ran at 228 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 205. The entity count reached 103,678: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 4,990 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

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

You will find [EU] Facepunch Small 3 online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 hours ago. 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] Facepunch Small 3 located?

Nothing in the tags says where [EU] Facepunch Small 3 is, but its name points to Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 79.137.98.19:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Small 3?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 79.137.98.19:28015; 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 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 RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.

Other

sc2
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags.

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.