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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,278habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] Facepunch Small 4

Online 79.137.98.19:28020 checked 11m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Measurements

Players now
0/ 300
0% full
7-day average
6
peak 20
Rank
#1,278
top 6%
Last wipe
28d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
6d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152001:0010:0020:0004:0013:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040001:0010:0020:0004:0013:0022:00

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 6% 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 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

25
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 18h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 18h
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 25, 43 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW28d ago 25 – 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 4 rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch Small 4 at #1,278, within the top 6% of all ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] Facepunch Small 4?

The count reads 0 players on [EU] Facepunch Small 4, which has 300 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 6 players and a peak of 20. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 11 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Small 4 mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags [EU] Facepunch Small 4 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp300 (Max players): You can join up to 300 slots; 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): This server runs 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 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): This tag falls outside Rust's standard set; the owner or a plugin set it. 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 4?

124 other servers we track publish the same playrust.com hostname as [EU] Facepunch Small 4, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Small 4?

On Rust Population, [EU] Facepunch Small 4 is filed under these lists: 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; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch Small 4?

Averaged over recent wipes, 25 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 43 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Small 4?

Once a month [EU] Facepunch Small 4 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. 28 days 6 hours ago the current world was made. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Map and rules

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Small 4 run?

The map on [EU] Facepunch Small 4 is procedural, made by the game at size 3,750 from seed 168365630. 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 Small 4?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [EU] Facepunch Small 4 states none. Eight players per group is the default, and it applies here. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. 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. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Small 4 run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [EU] Facepunch Small 4 uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [EU] Facepunch Small 4 run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 227 server fps, with 196 as the lowest. Entities peaked at 90,198, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,106 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.

Is [EU] Facepunch Small 4 online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Facepunch Small 4 is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 143 of 168 hours were online, or 85%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Small 4 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Small 4, but the name points to Europe. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 79.137.98.19:28020.

How to join

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Small 4?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 79.137.98.19:28020; 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 The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp300
Max players You can join up to 300 slots.
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 This server runs 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 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 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.