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Element card · group Official · atomic number 1,074, its rank

[US] Facepunch Small 2

Online 148.113.198.8:28015 checked 11m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla
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Atomic mass · players now 10/ 300 3% full Room to join
7-day average8peak 21
Rank · atomic number#1,074top 5%
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 22hThu 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
0510152021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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
010020030040021:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 5% of all ranked servers. 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 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak19players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 19, 46 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 19 – running 6

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 Small 2?

A procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 4025495 runs on [US] Facepunch Small 2, generated by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What rules has [US] Facepunch Small 2 set, and what settings are in force?

The name of [US] Facepunch Small 2 carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The in-game Official tab of Rust includes it. The server describes itself as vanilla: facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server details

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

Going by its name rather than a tag, [US] Facepunch Small 2 points to North America. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 148.113.198.8:28015.

Which Rust version is [US] Facepunch Small 2 on?

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

How dependable is [US] Facepunch Small 2 for staying online?

Right now, [US] Facepunch Small 2 is reachable. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

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

The last 48 hours show an average of 279 server fps and a minimum of 239. The entity count reached 92,761, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 4,415 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on [US] Facepunch Small 2?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what [US] Facepunch Small 2 does. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. 27 days 2 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

What does a typical wipe day on [US] Facepunch Small 2 involve?

Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 19 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 46 hours after it began.

Tags, lists

What should you understand from the tags [US] Facepunch Small 2 carries?

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 in the standard Rust style; mp300 (Max players): 300 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Those new to the game can start with the Facepunch tutorial; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust: that is the tag list [US] Facepunch Small 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.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does [US] Facepunch Small 2 appear in?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include [US] Facepunch Small 2 are: Rust tutorial servers: the live sample, Official Rust servers, North American Rust servers: the sample and Vanilla Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: 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; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.

Who is behind [US] Facepunch Small 2?

Sharing its playrust.com hostname with 124 other servers we track, [US] Facepunch Small 2 is most likely run by the same operator as those.

Player numbers

How does [US] Facepunch Small 2 compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours over the last week put [US] Facepunch Small 2 at #1,074, inside the top 5% of ranked servers.

How many players does [US] Facepunch Small 2 have at the moment?

Of 300 slots, 10 are taken on [US] Facepunch Small 2 right now. A seven-day sample gives 8 players on average and 21 at the top. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 15:00 UTC, at 16 players.

Connection

What is the way to join [US] Facepunch Small 2?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 148.113.198.8:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp300,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,ts8

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

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp300
Max players 300 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

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

Other

sc2
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust.

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.