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[AE] Facepunch 1

Online, with 25 of 350 players on; ranked #739 of every public Rust server, the top 3%. It last wiped 28d ago.

Filed under official monthly wipes vanilla
Launch Rust and join
The server's own banner, as it publishes it.
25/ 350 players now 7% full
157-day averagepeak 36
#739ranktop 3%
28d agolast wipemonthly schedule
6d 23hnext wipeThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The crowd

Players

Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.

AveragePeak
01020304020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.

Under the hood

Server performance

Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.

05010015020020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Note: 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.

The standings

Rank

Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.

RankRank in region
12505007501k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Note: Top 3% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Force wipes only.

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

38 wipe-day peak players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 34d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe

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

Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 27 hours in.

The record

Wipes

Every wipe we saw, newest first.

WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:43 UTC FW28d ago 38 – running 13

Note: 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.

If you like this one

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The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

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The short version

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Wipe days

What should you expect on wipe day at [AE] Facepunch 1?

Recent wipes peaked at 38 players on average. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

On what schedule does [AE] Facepunch 1 wipe?

The only wipe on [AE] Facepunch 1 is the monthly force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world you are playing on now was made 28 days 2 hours ago. Wipes run monthly, as its tags say.

About the server

How well does [AE] Facepunch 1 perform?

Server fps averaged 113 over 48 hours; the lowest reading was 90. Buildings, deployables and the rest took the entity count as high as 135,385. The highest memory figure was 5,565 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are what players experience as lag.

Which Rust version is [AE] Facepunch 1 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [AE] Facepunch 1 runs. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliable is [AE] Facepunch 1, and is it up at the moment?

[AE] Facepunch 1 is currently reachable and online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 13 hours ago. The last 7 full days gave 167 of 168 hours up, or 99% of the time. The first record Rust Insights has of it is 13 September 2026.

Where does [AE] Facepunch 1 run from?

No region is published by [AE] Facepunch 1. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. Connect through 185.179.203.165:28015.

Lists and tags

What is meant by each tag on [AE] Facepunch 1?

The 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp350 (Max players): The slot count is 350; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: 8 per team at most; v2635 (Protocol): To join you need the same version; protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe cycle is monthly and lines up with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game as shipped: rates, kits and rules are unchanged; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is open to new players on this server; sc2 (Custom tag): Not a standard Rust tag: a plugin or the owner put it there are what [AE] Facepunch 1 publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. You will find the present player count, the queue and the world's creation time among the tags, and they are displayed at the top of this page.

Who is behind [AE] Facepunch 1?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [AE] Facepunch 1, and by 124 other servers we track, which suggests the same operator runs them.

On which Rust Insights lists does [AE] Facepunch 1 appear?

These Rust Insights lists include [AE] Facepunch 1: Rust servers running the tutorial, Official Rust servers, listed and Vanilla Rust servers. On the server list, the filters that surface it are 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Player counts

What does the population of [AE] Facepunch 1 look like?

[AE] Facepunch 1 shows 25 players at the moment, against 350 slots. Over the past week it peaked at 36 and averaged 15 players. The busiest point of the last 48 hours fell at 18:00 UTC, averaging 33 players.

In the ranking of Rust servers, where does [AE] Facepunch 1 place?

The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts [AE] Facepunch 1 at #739, among the top 3% of all ranked servers.

Rules and settings

What are the settings and rules for [AE] Facepunch 1?

The name of [AE] Facepunch 1 does not state a gather rate. The default of 8 players per group is what applies here. You get survival as the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. You will find it in the Official tab in game. Calling itself vanilla, it gives this meaning: facepunch's game as shipped: rates, kits and rules are unchanged. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is active.

What is the map on [AE] Facepunch 1?

Size 4,500 and seed 1996265322 define the procedural map on [AE] Facepunch 1, generated by the game. Size and seed give the same map each time, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

Join

What is the way to join [AE] Facepunch 1?

Type client.connect 185.179.203.165:28015 into the console, which you open with F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job by opening Rust through Steam.

The small print

Server tags

What each one means.

Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,ts8

On Rust Insights

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.
mp350
Max players The slot count is 350.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: 8 per team at most.
v2635
Protocol To join you need the same version; protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe cycle is monthly and lines up with Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game as shipped: rates, kits and rules are unchanged.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is open to new players on this server.

Other

sc2
Custom tag Not a standard Rust tag: a plugin or the owner put it there.

Note: 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.