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Element card · group Official · atomic number 320, its rank

[US] Facepunch Softcore 2

Online 148.113.198.11:28020 checked 8m ago

official quad monthly wipes softcore
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Atomic mass · players now 40/ 300 13% full Room to join
7-day average57peak 157
Rank · atomic number#320top 1%
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
025507510005:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
05010015020005:0014:0000:0008:0017:0002:00

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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 1% of all ranked servers, and #17 of the quad servers (top 2%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak147players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 34d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

050100150200+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 147, 7 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW28d ago 147 – running 17

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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?

A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1750336523 runs on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2, generated by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What settings and rules apply on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?

No gather rate appears in the name of [US] Facepunch Softcore 2. You get up to 4 players per group (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's softer mode: part of your loot stays with you. Raids and player fights are part of play here. You will find it in Rust's Official tab in game. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server facts

Which location is [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 based in?

The name of [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 points to North America, even without a region tag. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 148.113.198.11:28020.

On what Rust version does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

At the moment, [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 is online. About 14 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Is [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 91 over the last 48 hours, with 51 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 350,389 entities. Up to 10,562 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2, and at what time?

Once a month is all [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 wipes, with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. The world it is running now dates from 28 days 10 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

On [US] Facepunch Softcore 2, what happens when wipe day arrives?

Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 147 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 7 hours after it began.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?

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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules make this an easier mode; mp300 (Max players): It has 300 slots; ts4 (Group limit): The team limit is 4; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): Those new to the game can start with the Facepunch tutorial; sc2 (Custom tag): Not a standard Rust tag, so either a plugin or the owner applied it: that is the tag list [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 are: Rust tutorial servers: the live sample, Official Rust servers and North American Rust servers: the sample. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Region: North America; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Who operates [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?

124 other servers we track publish a playrust.com hostname as well, which makes one operator the likely runner of them and [US] Facepunch Softcore 2.

Player counts

What position does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 hold among Rust servers?

The seven-day player-hours table has [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 at #320, in the top 1% of ranked servers. The quad ranking puts it at #17.

How full is [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 right now?

At the moment [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 has 40 of its 300 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 57 players, peaking at 157. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 23:00 UTC, when the average was 87 players.

Getting on

How can you connect to [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 148.113.198.11:28020. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^t,gmsoftcore,cs168909,sc2,ts4

On Rust Data Lab

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

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore rules make this an easier mode.
mp300
Max players It has 300 slots.
ts4
Group limit The team limit is 4.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Those new to the game can start with the Facepunch tutorial.

Other

sc2
Custom tag Not a standard Rust tag, so either a plugin or the owner applied it.

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.