Rust StatisticsWorking papers on every public Rust server · 37,278 players now

[US East] Facepunch 4

Rust Statistics

ruststatistics.org · independent, not affiliated with Facepunch Studios

Online · checked 9m ago · 40.160.19.16:28015

Abstract

We describe the public Rust server [US East] Facepunch 4, reached at 40.160.19.16:28015. At the last check it held 6 of 350 places, against a seven-day mean of 8 and a peak of 211. It ranks #1,046 of all servers, the top 5%. It last wiped 26d ago on a published monthly schedule; the next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, the force wipe.

Keywordsofficial monthly wipes vanilla

Access. Launch Rust and join ‹ all servers

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 now6/3502% full
In the queue0no queue
Seven-day mean8peak 21, 48 h peak 15
Rank2#1,046top 5%
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe38d 12hThu 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
0510152007:0016:0001:0011:0020:0005:00
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
010020030040007:0016:0001:0011:0020:0005:00
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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 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 8d 12h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.
MeasureValueNote
Wipe-day peak32players, last three wipes
Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.
When (UTC)InKind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:008d 12hforce wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:0036d 12hforce wipefw
010203040+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 32, 9 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.
Wiped (UTC)PeakCrowdLastedBefore
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40fw26d ago 32 – running 5

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 East] Facepunch 4
Figure 5: The map: Procedural Map, size 4500, seed 297650890. Open on RustMaps.
Table 5: The server's published settings.
Address40.160.19.16:28015
Region–
Max players350
Group limit8, the default
Wipe schedulemonthly
Last wipe1 Oct 2026, 17:40 UTC
Hostnamenew__useast4.playrust.com
First seen13 Sep 2026
MapProcedural Map
Size4500
Seed297650890

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 1online62/400
[EU] Facepunch Premium 1online62/350
[US East] Facepunch Premium 1online52/400
[EA] Softcore 1online52/350
[EU East] Facepunch 4online34/350
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2online28/300
[EU East] Facepunch 5online24/350
[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1online23/400

8Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are US Rust server statistics [2], tutorial server list [3], official Rust server list [4], rust servers with no mods [5] and next Rust wipe times [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 · 137 on average91/200
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 116 on average91/200
RustLands | Monthly Large | No BP Wipe | NOOB FRIENDLYNA · groups of 50+ · monthly · 65 on average55/225
PICKLE DUO MONTHLY | No BP Wipe | Low Upkeep | Duo SoloNA · groups of 20+ · monthly · 40 on average21/200
Rusticated.com - US Premium LongNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 35 on average18/150
Rustoria.co - US Long PremiumNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 33 on average11/200

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

About the server

A.1Is the performance of [US East] Facepunch 4 smooth?

The server fps averaged 282 over the last 48 hours, never dropping below 245. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects counted together reached a maximum of 133,137 entities. Its highest memory usage was 6,253 MB. Lag, as players feel it, results from low fps combined with an increasing entity count.

A.2What location does [US East] Facepunch 4 have?

Without a region tag from [US East] Facepunch 4, its name still points to North America. Where a server says it is: that is what Rust Statistics shows, without looking up where the machine stands. You will find it at 40.160.19.16:28015.

A.3What is the reliability of [US East] Facepunch 4, and is it online?

At the present moment, [US East] Facepunch 4 is online. The uptime it reports indicates a restart about 17 hours ago. Its uptime over the last full days (7 days) was 100%, with 168 of 168 hours online. It was first observed on 13 September 2026 by Rust Statistics.

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

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version that [US East] Facepunch 4 runs, on Windows. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, and Steam updates it automatically.

Wipe schedule

A.5What schedule does [US East] Facepunch 4 follow for wipes?

The only wipe for [US East] Facepunch 4 is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe occurs, and that is when every Rust server, including this one, next wipes. The current world has been running for 26 days 12 hours. According to its tags, wipes happen once a month.

A.6How would you describe wipe day on [US East] Facepunch 4?

Across its recent wipes, the average peak population was 32 players. The crowd reached its maximum 9 hours after the latest wipe.

Player count

A.7What position does [US East] Facepunch 4 occupy in the ranking of Rust servers?

Ranked by player hours across seven days, [US East] Facepunch 4 holds #1,046, in the top 5% of all ranked servers.

A.8How would you characterise the player activity on [US East] Facepunch 4?

On [US East] Facepunch 4, 6 of the 350 slots are occupied at present. Over the last week the count averages 8 players and reaches 21 at its height. Of the last 48 hours, the peak hour falls at 01:00 UTC, with an average of 14 players.

Tags, lists

A.9By whom is [US East] Facepunch 4 operated?

124 other servers we track share the playrust.com hostname published by [US East] Facepunch 4; the same operator most likely runs them.

A.10What do the tags associated with [US East] Facepunch 4 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; mp350 (Max players): The slot count is 350; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set; ^m (Monthly): The cycle is monthly: Facepunch's force wipe is when it wipes; ^v (Vanilla): Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available to new players on this server; sc2 (Custom tag): This is not a standard Rust tag: it was set by the owner or by a plugin: these are the tags [US East] Facepunch 4 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 [US East] Facepunch 4 be found among the Rust Statistics lists and filters?

These Rust Statistics lists include [US East] Facepunch 4: Rust servers with the tutorial tag, Official Rust servers, North American server statistics and Vanilla Rust servers. 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.

Rules, settings, map

A.12Under what rules and settings does [US East] Facepunch 4 operate?

Its name carries no gather rate for [US East] Facepunch 4. At 8 players, the group limit equals the game's default. The mode is survival, which means the standard mode, in which you gather, build and raid. Players may raid and fight one another. It appears under Official in the game's server list. By its own label, vanilla, rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships. VAC is active: that is Valve's anti-cheat.

A.13What map is in use on [US East] Facepunch 4?

Generated by the game from seed 297650890, the procedural map on [US East] Facepunch 4 measures 4,500. Size and seed being equal, the map is the same, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

Connection

A.14How do you connect to [US East] Facepunch 4?

Press F1 inside Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 40.160.19.16:28015. 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 mp350,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.
mp350Max players. The slot count is 350.
ts8Group limit. The team cap is 8, which is the game default.
v2635Protocol. Your game must run protocol 2635 to connect.
cs168909Build. The game build is 168909.
ptrakNetworking. The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game.
$r?Region code. A region code has not been set.
Wipe schedule
^mMonthly. The cycle is monthly: Facepunch's force wipe is when it wipes.
Difficulty
^vVanilla. Rates, kits and rules are unchanged from the game Facepunch ships.
Gameplay
^tTutorial on. Facepunch's tutorial is available to new players on this server.
Other
sc2Custom tag. This is not a standard Rust tag: it was set by the owner or by 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. US Rust server statistics. ruststatistics.org/top-us-rust-servers.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Tutorial server list. 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. Next Rust wipe times. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.