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Element card · group Official · atomic number 1,486, its rank

[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1

Online 40.160.19.52:28015 checked 11m ago

official teams off monthly wipes hardcore
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Atomic mass · players now 2/ 400 0% full Room to join
7-day average4peak 12
Rank · atomic number#1,486top 7%
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 5hThu 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
0246814:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

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
010020030040014:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

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 7% 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 5h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak22players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 5hThu 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 22, 4 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:39 UTC FW26d ago 22 – running 3

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

Settings and map

What map is in play on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1?

A procedural map of size 3,750 runs on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1, generated by the game.

How is [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 configured, and what rules apply?

The name of [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 carries no gather rate. The server publishes no limit on group size. Play runs as hardcore, Facepunch's toughest setting. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Rust lists it in the in-game Official tab. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.

Server details

In what location does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 sit?

The name of [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 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. Connect at 40.160.19.52:28015.

On what Rust version does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is live as of now. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 40 minutes 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.

Does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 hold a steady performance?

The last 48 hours show an average of 233 server fps and a minimum of 225. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 92,727 entities. Up to 4,211 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1, and at what time?

The only wipe on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 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. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 19 hours ago. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

What does a typical wipe day on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 involve?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 22 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 4 hours in.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1?

These are the tags [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 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; gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore rules make this a tougher mode; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are not available on this server; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 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): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for newcomers; sc2 (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 Hardcore 1 come up?

You will find [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust tutorial servers: the live sample, Official Rust servers and North American Rust servers: the sample. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: North America; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.

Who is behind [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1?

Sharing its playrust.com hostname with 124 other servers we track, [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 is most likely run by the same operator as those.

Player numbers

Against other Rust servers, where does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 place?

[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 sits at #1,486 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 7% of ranked servers.

How many players does [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 have at the moment?

At the moment [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1 has 2 of its 400 slots filled. A seven-day sample gives 4 players on average and 12 at the top. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 14:00 UTC, averaging 6 players.

Connection

What steps get you onto [US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 40.160.19.52:28015, 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,^t,gmhardcore,cs168909,sc2,ts0

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

gmhardcore
Game mode Hardcore rules make this a tougher mode.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts0
Group limit Teams are not available on this server.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build The game build is 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 Facepunch's tutorial is available here for newcomers.

Other

sc2
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.