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Element card · group Official · atomic number 827, its rank

[US East] Facepunch 3

Online 40.160.19.17:28015 checked 11m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla
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Atomic mass · players now 9/ 400 2% full Room to join
7-day average13peak 26
Rank · atomic number#827top 4%
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 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
0510152005:0014:0023:0009:0018:0003:00

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
010020030040005:0014:0023:0009:0018:0003:00

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
12505007501k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 4% 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 8d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak38players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 34 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW26d ago 38 – 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. 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 East] Facepunch 3?

[US East] Facepunch 3 runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 436502457; the game generates it. 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 East] Facepunch 3?

Nothing in the name of [US East] Facepunch 3 gives a gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it in Rust's Official tab in game. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

About the server

In what location does [US East] Facepunch 3 sit?

Going by its name rather than a tag, [US East] Facepunch 3 points to North America. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. You will find it at 40.160.19.17:28015.

On what Rust version does [US East] Facepunch 3 operate?

On Windows, [US East] Facepunch 3 is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How reliably does [US East] Facepunch 3 stay online?

At the moment, [US East] Facepunch 3 is online. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 15 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Does [US East] Facepunch 3 hold a steady performance?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 254 server fps, with a low of 218. The maximum entity count was 144,778, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The highest memory usage was 6,616 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipes and resets

How often does a wipe happen on [US East] Facepunch 3, and at what time?

The only wipe on [US East] Facepunch 3 is the monthly force wipe. The next time this server wipes will be the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which wipes every Rust server. 26 days 11 hours ago the current world was made. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

What does a typical wipe day on [US East] Facepunch 3 involve?

Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 38 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 34 hours in.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on [US East] Facepunch 3?

These are the tags [US East] Facepunch 3 makes public for the server browser to read: 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; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; 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): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; sc3 (Custom tag): This is not one of Rust's standard tags: an owner or a plugin added it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does [US East] Facepunch 3 come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include [US East] Facepunch 3 are: Rust tutorial servers: the live sample, Official Rust servers, North American Rust servers: the sample and Vanilla Rust servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Who is behind [US East] Facepunch 3?

Sharing its playrust.com hostname with 124 other servers we track, [US East] Facepunch 3 is most likely run by the same operator as those.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does [US East] Facepunch 3 place?

Player hours over the last week put [US East] Facepunch 3 at #827, inside the top 4% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on [US East] Facepunch 3 tell you?

[US East] Facepunch 3 currently shows 9 players across 400 slots. A seven-day sample gives 13 players on average and 26 at the top. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 00:00 UTC, averaging 18 players.

Connection

What steps get you onto [US East] Facepunch 3?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 40.160.19.17:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc3,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.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
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 Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

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

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players.

Other

sc3
Custom tag This is not one of Rust's standard tags: an owner or a plugin added 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.