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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server [EU] Facepunch Staging, reached at 79.137.98.9:28015. At the last check it held 4 of 350 places, against a seven-day mean of 4 and a peak of 121. It ranks #1,480 of all servers, the top 7%. It last wiped 34d 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 now4/3501% full
In the queue0no queue
Seven-day mean4peak 12, 48 h peak 10
Rank2#1,480top 7%
Last wipe34d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe37d 18hThu 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
02.557.51001:0010:0019:0004:0013:0023:00
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
05010015020001:0010:0019:0004:0013:0023:00
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 7% 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 7d 18h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.
MeasureValueNote
Usual gap13.8 daysbetween real wipes
Wipe-day peak38players, last three wipes
Crowd held0%else halves by day 8
Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.
When (UTC)InKind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:007d 18hforce wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:0035d 18hforce wipefw
Thu 8 OctThu 24 Sep
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 23, 11 hours in.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.
Wiped (UTC)PeakCrowdLastedBefore
Thu 8 Oct, 07:2720d ago 23 – running 5
Thu 24 Sep, 11:4534d ago 54 halved by day 8 13.8 d 11

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 [EU] Facepunch Staging
Figure 5: The map: Procedural Map, size 4300, seed 1641015675. Open on RustMaps.
Table 5: The server's published settings.
Address79.137.98.9:28015
Region–
Max players350
Group limit8, the default
Wipe schedulemonthly
Last wipe24 Sep 2026, 11:45 UTC
Hostnameeu__staging.playrust.com
First seen13 Sep 2026
MapProcedural Map
Size4300
Seed1641015675

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 1online116/400
[US East] Facepunch Premium 1online90/400
[US] Facepunch Softcore 1online89/300
[EU] Facepunch Premium 1online88/350
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2online74/300
[EU East] Facepunch 5online47/350
[EU East] Facepunch 4online44/350
[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1online30/400

8Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are european rust servers [2], rust tutorial servers [3], Rust official tag servers [4], unmodded rust server list [5] and Rust wipe forecast [6].

Table 7: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
ServerPlayers
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 319 on average153/200
Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 215 on average118/200
Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 128 on average70/100
Magic Rust — Long | Kлaccикa x1 | PyccкийEU · groups of 150+ · 1x · monthly · 125 on average30/300
Rusty Moose |EU Small|EU · groups of 8+ · monthly · 61 on average63/200
666 RUST /ДЛЯ НОВИЧКОВ /ПИТЕРСКИЙ 28.10EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 43 on average121/750

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

About the server

A.1How well does [EU] Facepunch Staging run?

Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 191, with a minimum of 180. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects counted together reached a maximum of 115,000 entities. The peak memory usage was 4,138 MB. When fps is low and entity count climbs, players feel lag.

A.2In which location is [EU] Facepunch Staging based?

No region tag is published by [EU] Facepunch Staging, but its name points to Europe. The location displayed by Rust Statistics is the server's own claim, not a lookup of where the machine stands. 79.137.98.9:28015 is its address.

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

At the present moment, [EU] Facepunch Staging is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart occurred about 13 hours ago. Its uptime over the last full days (7 days) was 86%, with 144 of 168 hours online. The first record of it by Rust Statistics dates to 13 September 2026.

A.4What is the Rust version for [EU] Facepunch Staging?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169488 is the version that [EU] Facepunch Staging runs, on Windows. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.

Wipe timing

A.5What schedule does [EU] Facepunch Staging follow for wipes?

The only wipe for [EU] Facepunch Staging is the monthly 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 world currently in use was created 34 days 13 hours ago. The tags show that the server wipes monthly.

A.6What characterises wipe day on [EU] Facepunch Staging?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 38 players. The crowd reached its maximum 11 hours after the latest wipe. For 0% of recent wipes, the population did not fall below half the peak before the next wipe. In the other cases, the population fell below half by day 8.

Player count

A.7What is the rank of [EU] Facepunch Staging among Rust servers?

The seven-day player-hours ranking puts [EU] Facepunch Staging at #1,480, within the top 7% of ranked servers.

A.8How would you characterise the player activity on [EU] Facepunch Staging?

At this moment 4 players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging, which has 350 slots in total. Averaged over the last seven days: 4 players; the same period peaks at 12. Averaging 9 players, 19:00 UTC was the busiest hour of the past 48.

Tags and filters

A.9Who operates [EU] Facepunch Staging?

The same operator most likely runs [EU] Facepunch Staging and 124 other servers we track, since both publish a playrust.com hostname.

A.10How should the tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging be interpreted?

Tags from [EU] Facepunch Staging, 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; mp350 (Max players): It offers 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are limited to 8, as the game defaults; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs169488 (Build): This server runs game build 169488; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month; ^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): The owner or a plugin set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags. Current players, queue and the world's creation time are among the tags as well, displayed at the top of this page.

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

The Rust Statistics lists that [EU] Facepunch Staging fits are: Rust servers with the tutorial tag, European Rust servers, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. You will find it on the server list filtered by: Region: Europe; 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.12What are the settings and rules that govern [EU] Facepunch Staging?

Its name carries no gather rate for [EU] Facepunch Staging. No cap is given beyond the game's default of 8 players per group. survival is the game mode here; gather, build and raid: the standard game. Players may raid and fight one another. It appears under Official in the game's server list. It describes itself as vanilla, which is to say 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 [EU] Facepunch Staging?

Generated by the game from seed 1641015675, the procedural map on [EU] Facepunch Staging measures 4,300. Because size and seed determine the map, RustMaps can show it, linked from this page.

How to join

A.14What is the process for joining [EU] Facepunch Staging?

Press F1 inside Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015. 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,cs169488,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.
mp350Max players. It offers 350 slots.
ts8Group limit. Teams are limited to 8, as the game defaults.
v2635Protocol. Your game must run protocol 2635 to connect.
cs169488Build. This server runs game build 169488.
ptrakNetworking. The network layer is RakNet, standard for the game.
$r?Region code. A region code has not been set.
Wipe schedule
^mMonthly. Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month.
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. The owner or a plugin set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags.

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. The Staging Branch in Rust is a separate version of Rust where new updates and features are tested before being published to the main game. To join, launch 'Rust - Staging Branch' from your Steam library. See more at https://rust.facepunch.com/staging

References

  1. [1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
  2. [2]Rust Statistics. European rust servers. ruststatistics.org/top-eu-rust-servers.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Rust tutorial servers. ruststatistics.org/rust-tutorial-servers.
  4. [4]Rust Statistics. Rust official tag servers. ruststatistics.org/top-official-rust-servers.
  5. [5]Rust Statistics. Unmodded rust server list. ruststatistics.org/top-vanilla-rust-servers.
  6. [6]Rust Statistics. Rust wipe forecast. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.