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Element card · group Official · atomic number 444, its rank

[EU] Facepunch Softcore 3

Online 79.137.98.22:28015 checked 10m ago

official quad monthly wipes softcore
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Atomic mass · players now 9/ 400 2% full Room to join
7-day average39peak 112
Rank · atomic number#444top 2%
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 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
025507510005:0014:0023:0007:0016:0002:00

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
010020030040005:0014:0023:0007:0016:0002:00

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 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 2% of all ranked servers, and #24 of the quad servers (top 3%). 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 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak139players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 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 139, 47 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago 139 – running 35

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 [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?

The map on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 1478860386, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

What settings and rules apply on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3. The group cap is 4 players (quad). Play runs as softcore, You keep some of what you collect, which makes this the easier mode. Raids and player fights are part of play here. Rust lists it in the in-game Official tab. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

Which location is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 based in?

Going by its name rather than a tag, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 points to Europe. 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 79.137.98.22:28015.

What Rust version does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 currently run?

On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How dependable is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 for staying online?

Right now, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 14 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

How well does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 perform?

The last 48 hours show an average of 175 server fps and a minimum of 127. The entity count reached 272,560, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 8,298 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe days

When does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 wipe, and how often?

Once a month is all [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 wipes, with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 10 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

What does a typical wipe day on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 involve?

Recent wipes on average reached 139 players at their busiest. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 47 hours in.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 carries?

These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Softcore 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): The rules are softcore, which is easier; mp400 (Max players): It has 400 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^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): This is not one of Rust's standard tags: an owner or a plugin added 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 [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 are: Rust tutorial servers: the live sample, EU Rust servers, measured and Official Rust servers. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Who is behind [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?

The playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 publishes also appears on 124 other servers we track, so the same operator most likely runs them.

Player counts

How does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 compare with other servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours table has [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 at #444, in the top 2% of ranked servers. Within quad, its rank is #24.

How many players does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 have at the moment?

At the moment [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 has 9 of its 400 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 39 players, peaking at 112. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 18:00 UTC, at 83 players.

How to join

What steps get you onto [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 79.137.98.22:28015, 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,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 The rules are softcore, which is easier.
mp400
Max players It has 400 slots.
ts4
Group limit Teams cap at 4 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

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 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.