[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small
Online 79.137.98.21:28017 checked 15m ago
Measurements
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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.
Rank
Top 4% of all ranked servers, and #51 of the quad servers (top 6%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 31 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:47 UTC33d ago | 21 | – | running | 15 |
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.
Quick answers
Population
How does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small at #925, within the top 4% of all ranked servers. It places #51 among servers of the quad kind.
How busy is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small holds 12 players at the moment, out of 250 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 10 players and a peak of 25. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 18:00 UTC, averaging 20 players.
Tags
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small mean?
What the game's server browser reads from [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp250 (Max players): The server has 250 slots; ts4 (Group limit): The team limit is 4; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs169289 (Build): Game build: 169289; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^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 Staging Softcore Small?
124 other servers we track publish the same playrust.com hostname as [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, so the same operator most likely runs the group.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
On Rust Population, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is filed under these lists: Rust tutorial servers, Rust servers in Europe and Official Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; 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 Staging Softcore Small?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 21 players. Peak came 31 hours into the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 33 days 5 hours ago the current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.
Settings
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?
A procedural map of size 3,750 from seed 714955012, generated by the game, is in use on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small states none. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). You get softcore here, Facepunch's lighter mode, where some loot is kept. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You will find it in the Official tab in game. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
Server details
Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169289 on Windows for [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run smoothly?
It ran at 137 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 113. Entities peaked at 121,000, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 5,360 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small online, and how reliable is it?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 6 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small located?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small points to Europe, though it publishes no region tag. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 79.137.98.21:28017 is where it lives.
Getting in
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Either enter client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.