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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server [SEA] Facepunch 3, reached at 15.235.180.213:28015. At the last check it held 2 of 250 places, against a seven-day mean of 8 and a peak of 221. It ranks #1,083 of all servers, the top 5%. It last wiped 28d 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 now2/2501% full
In the queue0no queue
Seven-day mean8peak 22, 48 h peak 16
Rank2#1,083top 5%
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe36d 15hThu 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
0510152004:0013:0023:0008:0017:0002:00
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
05010015020004:0013:0023:0008:0017:0002:00
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 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 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 6d 15h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.
MeasureValueNote
Wipe-day peak46players, last three wipes
Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.
When (UTC)InKind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:006d 15hforce wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:0034d 15hforce wipefw
020406080+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 46, 45 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.
Wiped (UTC)PeakCrowdLastedBefore
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42fw28d ago 46 – running 7

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 [SEA] Facepunch 3
Figure 5: The map: Procedural Map, size 4500, seed 97751958. Open on RustMaps.
Table 5: The server's published settings.
Address15.235.180.213:28015
Region–
Max players250
Group limit8, the default
Wipe schedulemonthly
Last wipe1 Oct 2026, 17:42 UTC
Hostnamesea__3.playrust.com
First seen13 Sep 2026
MapProcedural Map
Size4500
Seed97751958

7Operator

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

Table 6: Other servers of the same operator, playrust.com.
ServerStatusPlayers
[US East] Facepunch Premium 1online78/400
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2online55/300
[EU] Facepunch 1online51/400
[US] Facepunch Softcore 1online50/300
[EU] Facepunch Premium 1online40/350
[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1online27/400
[EA] Softcore 1online25/350
[CAN] Facepunch Premium 1online24/350

8Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are servers with the tutorial tag [2], Rust official tag servers [3], live vanilla server list [4] and predicted wipe schedule [5].

Table 7: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
ServerPlayers
Rustoria.co - SEA LongEA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 100 on average19/200
Rustafied.com - SEA LongEA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 26 on average7/100
RustGalaxy Nexus JapanEA · groups of 100+ · monthly · 3 on average1/50
nomarust LL | JP | Vanilla | MonthlyEA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 2 on average0/200
RustGalaxy Nexus SingaporeEA · groups of 100+ · monthly · 2 on average0/50
nomarust Long | JP | Vanilla | MonthlyEA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 1 on average2/200

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

About the server

A.1Does [SEA] Facepunch 3 perform well?

Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 175, with a minimum of 137. Its entity count reached a maximum of 142,400, including buildings, deployables and all other world objects. Its highest memory usage was 5,660 MB. Lag, as players feel it, results from low fps combined with an increasing entity count.

A.2What location does [SEA] Facepunch 3 have?

Its name points to Asia, though [SEA] Facepunch 3 publishes no region tag. The location displayed by Rust Statistics is the server's own claim, not a lookup of where the machine stands. 15.235.180.213:28015 is its address.

A.3How reliable is [SEA] Facepunch 3, and is it currently online?

At the present moment, [SEA] Facepunch 3 is online. It last restarted around 14 hours ago, according to its reported uptime. The server was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours. It was first observed on 13 September 2026 by Rust Statistics.

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version that [SEA] Facepunch 3 runs, on Windows. Steam updates your game for you, but you must be on the same protocol to join.

Wipe schedule

A.5When are wipes carried out on [SEA] Facepunch 3?

Once a month, [SEA] Facepunch 3 wipes in line with the force wipe. This server's next wipe coincides with the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which affects all Rust servers. The world currently in use was created 28 days 9 hours ago. According to its tags, wipes happen once a month.

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

Across its recent wipes, the average peak population was 46 players. The peak on the latest wipe came 45 hours after it began.

Population

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

The seven-day player-hours ranking puts [SEA] Facepunch 3 at #1,083, within the top 5% of ranked servers.

A.8At what level does [SEA] Facepunch 3 operate in terms of players?

At this moment 2 players are on [SEA] Facepunch 3, which has 250 slots in total. Over the last week the count averages 8 players and reaches 22 at its height. Of the last 48 hours, the peak hour falls at 13:00 UTC, with an average of 14 players.

Tags, lists

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

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

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

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): This is survival as standard Rust plays; mp250 (Max players): The slot count is 250; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game 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): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe cycle applies, timed to coincide with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships; ^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: these are the tags [SEA] Facepunch 3 publishes, and the server browser reads them. The tags also carry current players, queue length and world creation time, shown at the top of this page.

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

The Rust Statistics lists that [SEA] Facepunch 3 fits are: Rust servers with the tutorial tag, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. You will find it on the server list filtered by: Region: Asia; 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.

Rules, settings, map

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

Its name carries no gather rate for [SEA] Facepunch 3. At 8 players, the group limit equals the game's default. The mode is survival, which means gather, build and raid: the standard game. Combat and raiding against other players are allowed. Official, in the game's own tab, includes this server. By its own label, vanilla, rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships. The server has VAC on, Valve's anti-cheat.

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

Generated by the game from seed 97751958, the procedural map on [SEA] Facepunch 3 measures 4,500. Because size and seed determine the map, RustMaps can show it, linked from this page.

How to join

A.14How do you connect to [SEA] Facepunch 3?

Press F1 inside Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 15.235.180.213:28015. 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 mp250,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. This is survival as standard Rust plays.
mp250Max players. The slot count is 250.
ts8Group limit. The team cap is 8, which is the game default.
v2635Protocol. The game protocol is 2635; your client must match it to join.
cs168909Build. Build 168909 is the one running.
ptrakNetworking. Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer.
$r?Region code. No region code is set.
Wipe schedule
^mMonthly. A monthly wipe cycle applies, timed to coincide with Facepunch's force wipe.
Difficulty
^vVanilla. Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships.
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. Servers with the tutorial tag. ruststatistics.org/rust-tutorial-servers.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Rust official tag servers. ruststatistics.org/top-official-rust-servers.
  4. [4]Rust Statistics. Live vanilla server list. ruststatistics.org/top-vanilla-rust-servers.
  5. [5]Rust Statistics. Predicted wipe schedule. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.