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Element card · group Official · atomic number 339, its rank

[EU] Facepunch Softcore 1

Online 79.137.98.23:28015 checked 12m ago

official quad monthly wipes softcore
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Atomic mass · players now 29/ 400 7% full Room to join
7-day average52peak 145
Rank · atomic number#339top 2%
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 18hThu 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
05010015020001:0010:0019:0004:0013:0023:00

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
05010015020001:0010:0019:0004:0013:0023:00

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
110020030040020 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 2% of all ranked servers, and #19 of the quad servers (top 2%). 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 18h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak323players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 18hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 323, 25 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:41 UTC FW27d ago 323 – running 52

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

Map and rules

What map is in play on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

The map on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 1936951902, 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 1?

No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). Play runs as softcore, You keep some of what you collect, which makes this the easier mode. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Rust lists it in the in-game Official tab. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server details

Which location is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 based in?

Going by its name rather than a tag, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 points to Europe. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. You will find it at 79.137.98.23:28015.

Which Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 on?

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

How reliably does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 stay online?

Right now, [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 11 hours ago. It was online for 144 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 86% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 133 over the last 48 hours, with 94 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 366,079 entities. Memory use peaked at 10,509 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe schedule

What is the wiping pattern on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 does. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. 27 days 6 hours ago the current world was made. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.

On [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1, what happens when wipe day arrives?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 323 players. 25 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

Tags, lists

How should you read the tags on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

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): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for newcomers; sc2 (Custom tag): Not a standard Rust tag, so either a plugin or the owner applied it: that is the tag list [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 publishes, and the game's server browser reads 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 [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 come up?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1: 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Who is behind [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

The playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 publishes also appears on 124 other servers we track, so the same operator most likely runs them.

Player numbers

Against other Rust servers, where does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 place?

[EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 sits at #339 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 2% of ranked servers. The quad ranking puts it at #19.

How full is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 right now?

At the moment [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 has 29 of its 400 slots filled. Averaged over the past week: 52 players, peaking at 145. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 19:00 UTC, when the average was 108 players.

Connection

How can you connect to [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 79.137.98.23:28015, 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 Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Facepunch's tutorial is available here for newcomers.

Other

sc2
Custom tag Not a standard Rust tag, so either a plugin or the owner applied 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.