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Specimen recordcat. no. 305habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

[EU] Facepunch Softcore 1

Online 79.137.98.23:28015 checked 15m ago

official quad monthly wipes softcore

Measurements

Players now
81/ 400
= 5 players
20% full
7-day average
56
peak 167
Rank
#305
top 1%
Last wipe
25d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
9d 1h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
05010015020018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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
110020030040020 Sep27 Sep5 Oct12 Oct20 Oct27 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, and #17 of the quad servers (top 2%). 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 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

323
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

9d 1h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
37d 1h
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 323, 25 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW25d ago 323 – running 52

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 Softcore 1 rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 places at #305, within the top 1% of ranked servers. It places #17 among servers of the quad kind.

How busy is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

[EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 holds 81 players at the moment, out of 400 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 56 players and a peak of 167. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 19:00 UTC, when an average of 141 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 mean?

These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 publishes, as read by the game's server browser: 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; mp400 (Max players): You can join up to 400 slots; ts4 (Group limit): You may team with up to 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): This server runs 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): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^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. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Who runs [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

A playrust.com hostname comes from [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 and from 124 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

[EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 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 50; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

Averaged over recent wipes, 323 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 25 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

The force wipe is the only wipe [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 takes, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. Counted from 25 days 23 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 run?

The map on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 1936951902. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 states none. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). This server runs softcore, Facepunch's lighter mode, where some loot is kept. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Rust's own Official tab carries it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 run?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 126 server fps, with a low of 64. Entities peaked at 377,160, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 10,509 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 online, and how reliable is it?

You will find [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 online now. About 4 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 13 September 2026.

Where is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 located?

No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1, but the name points to Europe. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 79.137.98.23:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

Either enter client.connect 79.137.98.23:28015 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^t,gmsoftcore,cs168909,sc2,ts4

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

gmsoftcore
Game mode An easier ruleset, softcore.
mp400
Max players You can join up to 400 slots.
ts4
Group limit You may team with up to 4 players.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build This server runs 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 This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

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.