Element card · group Official · atomic number 1,219, its rank
[AU] Facepunch 2
Online 51.161.199.230:28015 checked 14m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 5% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 16hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 30, 39 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago | 30 | – | running | 1 |
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.
Similar servers
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from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on [AU] Facepunch 2?
[AU] Facepunch 2 runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 157227784; 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 [AU] Facepunch 2?
No gather rate appears in the name of [AU] Facepunch 2. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The in-game Official tab of Rust includes it. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.
Server details
What region hosts [AU] Facepunch 2?
The name of [AU] Facepunch 2 points to Oceania, 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. 51.161.199.230:28015 is the address it uses.
Which Rust version is [AU] Facepunch 2 on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [AU] Facepunch 2 uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliably does [AU] Facepunch 2 stay online?
[AU] Facepunch 2 is live as of now. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
How well does [AU] Facepunch 2 perform?
Server fps averaged 186 over the last 48 hours, with 149 as the lowest. The entity count reached 130,159, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 5,966 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe days
What is the wiping pattern on [AU] Facepunch 2?
Once a month is all [AU] Facepunch 2 wipes, with the 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. 27 days 8 hours ago the current world was made. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.
How does [AU] Facepunch 2 look on the day of a wipe?
Recent wipes on average reached 30 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 39 hours in.
Tags, lists
How should you read the tags on [AU] Facepunch 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; gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp250 (Max players): It has 250 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^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; sc2 (Custom tag): Not a standard Rust tag, so either a plugin or the owner applied it: that is the tag list [AU] Facepunch 2 publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does [AU] Facepunch 2 appear in?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include [AU] Facepunch 2 are: Rust tutorial servers: the live sample, Rust servers in Oceania, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: Oceania; 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.
Who operates [AU] Facepunch 2?
Sharing its playrust.com hostname with 124 other servers we track, [AU] Facepunch 2 is most likely run by the same operator as those.
Population
Against other Rust servers, where does [AU] Facepunch 2 place?
Player hours over the last week put [AU] Facepunch 2 at #1,219, inside the top 5% of ranked servers.
How many players does [AU] Facepunch 2 have at the moment?
At the moment [AU] Facepunch 2 has 3 of its 250 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 7 players, peaking at 14. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 09:00 UTC, averaging 9 players.
Getting on
What is the way to join [AU] Facepunch 2?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 51.161.199.230:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.