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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server [US] Facepunch Small 3, reached at 148.113.198.8:28020. At the last check it held 8 of 300 places, against a seven-day mean of 8 and a peak of 191. It ranks #1,090 of all servers, the top 5%. It last wiped 27d ago on a published monthly schedule; the next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, the force wipe.

Keywordsofficial monthly wipes vanilla

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1Summary statistics

Plate 1: The server's own banner, as it publishes it. Table 1 gives its figures at the last check.
Table 1: The server at the last check, its week and its standing.
MeasureValueNote
Players now8/3003% full
In the queue0no queue
Seven-day mean8peak 19, 48 h peak 15
Rank2#1,090top 5%
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe37d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCfw

2Population

Figure 1 follows the players on the server at three scales: every five minutes over two hours, the hourly mean and peak over 48 hours, and the daily mean and peak over 90 days. Dashed uprights mark its wipes.

AveragePeak
0510152010:0019:0004:0012:0022:0007:00
Figure 1: Players on the server, UTC: (a) every five minutes, from the Steam server list; (b) hourly mean and peak; (c) daily mean and peak.

3Performance

We query the server directly for its frame rate, entity count and memory4. Low frames per second and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag (Figure 2).

measure
range
010020030040010:0019:0004:0012:0022:0007:00
Figure 2: 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.

4Rank

The server stands in the top 5% of all ranked servers. Rank is on player hours over the last seven days, and 1 is best; Figure 3 draws it day by day.

RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct
Figure 3: Daily rank, overall and in its region; the axis is inverted, so up is better.

5Wipes

5.1Schedule: force wipes only

The next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 9h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.
MeasureValueNote
Wipe-day peak23players, last three wipes
Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.
When (UTC)InKind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:007d 9hforce wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:0035d 9hforce wipefw
05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h
Figure 4: The first 48 hours of its last wipes: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 23, 47 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.
Wiped (UTC)PeakCrowdLastedBefore
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40fw27d ago 23 – running 4

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. Before: players just before it wiped. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

6Map and settings

Map of [US] Facepunch Small 3
Figure 5: The map: Procedural Map, size 3750, seed 719534390. Open on RustMaps.
Table 5: The server's published settings.
Address148.113.198.8:28020
Region–
Max players300
Group limit8, the default
Wipe schedulemonthly
Last wipe1 Oct 2026, 17:40 UTC
Hostnamenew__us__small__3.playrust.com
First seen13 Sep 2026
MapProcedural Map
Size3750
Seed719534390

7Operator

125 servers publish a playrust.com hostname; the busiest are listed.

Table 6: Other servers of the same operator, playrust.com.
ServerStatusPlayers
[EU] Facepunch 1online81/400
[EA] Softcore 1online79/350
[EU East] Facepunch 4online64/350
[EU] Facepunch Premium 1online55/350
[EU East] Facepunch 5online38/350
[US East] Facepunch Premium 1online36/400
[EA] Facepunch 2online29/300
[EA] Facepunch 3online28/350

8Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are Rust servers in North America [2], rust tutorial servers [3], official Rust server list [4], rust servers with no mods [5] and servers wiping soon [6].

Table 7: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
ServerPlayers
Rustopia.gg - US LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 129 on average40/200
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 111 on average52/200
RustLands | Monthly Large | No BP Wipe | NOOB FRIENDLYNA · groups of 50+ · monthly · 60 on average22/225
PICKLE DUO MONTHLY | No BP Wipe | Low Upkeep | Duo SoloNA · groups of 20+ · monthly · 36 on average14/200
Rusticated.com - US Premium LongNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 33 on average20/150
Rustoria.co - US Long PremiumNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 31 on average13/200

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server details

A.1Is the performance of [US] Facepunch Small 3 smooth?

The server fps averaged 277 over the last 48 hours, never dropping below 223. The highest number of entities it carried was 96,451, comprising buildings, deployables and all other objects. The peak memory usage was 5,519 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count is rising.

A.2What is the location of [US] Facepunch Small 3?

No region tag is published by [US] Facepunch Small 3, but its name points to North America. Rust Statistics does not look up the machine's location; it shows where the server says it is. 148.113.198.8:28020 is its address.

A.3What is the online status and reliability of [US] Facepunch Small 3?

[US] Facepunch Small 3 is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart occurred about 19 hours ago. Its uptime over the last full days (7 days) was 99%, with 167 of 168 hours online. Its first appearance in Rust Statistics's records is 13 September 2026.

A.4What is the Rust version for [US] Facepunch Small 3?

[US] Facepunch Small 3 is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on the Windows operating system. Steam updates your game for you, but you must be on the same protocol to join.

Wipe schedule

A.5On what cycle does [US] Facepunch Small 3 wipe?

Once a month, [US] Facepunch Small 3 wipes in line with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; this server's next wipe is then. The current world has been running for 27 days 15 hours. According to its tags, wipes happen once a month.

A.6What characterises wipe day on [US] Facepunch Small 3?

The average busiest point of recent wipes was 23 players. The peak on the latest wipe came 47 hours after it began.

Population

A.7How does [US] Facepunch Small 3 compare with other Rust servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours ranking puts [US] Facepunch Small 3 at #1,090, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

A.8How would you characterise the player activity on [US] Facepunch Small 3?

At this moment 8 players are on [US] Facepunch Small 3, which has 300 slots in total. Over the last week the count averages 8 players and reaches 19 at its height. Averaging 13 players, 21:00 UTC was the busiest hour of the past 48.

Tags, lists

A.9Who is responsible for running [US] Facepunch Small 3?

A playrust.com hostname is published by [US] Facepunch Small 3; 124 other servers we track also publish one, so the same operator most likely runs them.

A.10What do the tags associated with [US] Facepunch Small 3 signify?

Tags from [US] Facepunch Small 3, read by the game's server browser, are 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 on standard Rust rules; mp300 (Max players): It offers 300 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the value the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635; your client must match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is the one running; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): The cycle is monthly: Facepunch's force wipe is when it wipes; ^v (Vanilla): This is the game as Facepunch ships it, with rates, kits and rules unaltered; ^t (Tutorial on): The tutorial from Facepunch is open to new players here; sc2 (Custom tag): A non-standard tag, applied by the owner or a plugin. Also in the tags: players now, the queue, and when the world was made; these appear at the top of this page.

A.11Where can [US] Facepunch Small 3 be found among the Rust Statistics lists and filters?

Rust servers with the tutorial tag, Official Rust servers, North American server statistics and Vanilla Rust servers are the Rust Statistics lists that [US] Facepunch Small 3 fits. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Region: North America; 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.

Settings and map

A.12Which settings and rules are in force on [US] Facepunch Small 3?

Its name carries no gather rate for [US] Facepunch Small 3. At 8 players, the group limit equals the game's default. Listed as survival, the game mode is gather, build and raid: the standard game. Combat and raiding against other players are allowed. The in-game Official tab lists it. The server's own description is vanilla: this is the game as Facepunch ships it, with rates, kits and rules unaltered. VAC is active: that is Valve's anti-cheat.

A.13What map is in use on [US] Facepunch Small 3?

Size 3,750 and seed 719534390 define the procedural, game-generated map on [US] Facepunch Small 3. Size and seed being equal, the map is the same, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

How to join

A.14What steps are required to join [US] Facepunch Small 3?

Press F1 inside Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 148.113.198.8:28020. Alternatively, the Launch Rust and join control on this page launches the game via Steam and completes the connection.

Appendix BServer tags

What each of the server's tags means. Published as mp300,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,ts8.

Table 8: The server's tags and their meanings.
TagMeaning
On Rust Statistics
officialRun 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
gmrustGame mode. Survival on standard Rust rules.
mp300Max players. It offers 300 slots.
ts8Group limit. 8 per team, the value the game sets by default.
v2635Protocol. The game protocol is 2635; your client must match it to join.
cs168909Build. Build 168909 is the one running.
ptrakNetworking. The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game.
$r?Region code. The region code is unset.
Wipe schedule
^mMonthly. The cycle is monthly: Facepunch's force wipe is when it wipes.
Difficulty
^vVanilla. This is the game as Facepunch ships it, with rates, kits and rules unaltered.
Gameplay
^tTutorial on. The tutorial from Facepunch is open to new players here.
Other
sc2Custom tag. A non-standard tag, applied by the owner or a plugin.

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.

Appendix CAbout this server, in its own words

This is an official server owned and operated by Facepunch. People are free to speak whatever language they like. Don't be surprised if you get banned for being abusive.

References

  1. [1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
  2. [2]Rust Statistics. Rust servers in North America. ruststatistics.org/top-us-rust-servers.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Rust tutorial servers. ruststatistics.org/rust-tutorial-servers.
  4. [4]Rust Statistics. Official Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/top-official-rust-servers.
  5. [5]Rust Statistics. Rust servers with no mods. ruststatistics.org/top-vanilla-rust-servers.
  6. [6]Rust Statistics. Servers wiping soon. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.