Players
[EA] Facepunch 2
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
Top 3% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 298, 2 hours in, with 73 in the queue.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago | 298+73 queue | – | running | 44 |
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
About the server
Is [EA] Facepunch 2 online, and how reliable is it?
[EA] Facepunch 2 is up as you read this. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 21 hours ago. Of the past 7 full days it was running for 167 of 168 hours, or 99% of the time. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 13 September 2026.
Where is [EA] Facepunch 2 located?
No region is published by [EA] Facepunch 2. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. 103.194.164.43:28015 is its address.
Which version of Rust does [EA] Facepunch 2 run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is the version [EA] Facepunch 2 runs. Joining needs the same protocol on your game; Steam handles the update.
Does [EA] Facepunch 2 run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 153 server fps; the lowest point was 112. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 179,574 entities. Memory use peaked at 7,005 MB. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Who is on
How busy is [EA] Facepunch 2?
[EA] Facepunch 2 has 9 of its 300 slots filled right now. Over the last week it averaged 25 players; the high point was 51. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 11:00 UTC, averaging 45 players.
How does [EA] Facepunch 2 rank against other Rust servers?
In the seven-day player hours table, [EA] Facepunch 2 is #598, inside the top 3% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on [EA] Facepunch 2?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 298 players. 73 waited in the queue as the latest wipe peaked, 2 hours after it began.
What is the wipe schedule on [EA] Facepunch 2?
Once a month is the whole of it: [EA] Facepunch 2 wipes with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next wipe, the force wipe that takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 10 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on [EA] Facepunch 2?
The name [EA] Facepunch 2 carries no gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, as the game sets by default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The Official tab in Rust includes it. The server describes itself as vanilla: vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules from Facepunch's game. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does [EA] Facepunch 2 run?
[EA] Facepunch 2 runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 334048073, generated by the game. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps; the same size and seed make the same map.
Tag guide
Who runs [EA] Facepunch 2?
124 other servers we track share the playrust.com hostname with [EA] Facepunch 2, which points to a common operator.
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include [EA] Facepunch 2?
These Rust Charts lists include [EA] Facepunch 2: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: 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.
What do the server tags on [EA] Facepunch 2 mean?
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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp300 (Max players): 300 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the Facepunch force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules from Facepunch's game; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for newcomers; sc3 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag — that's the set of tags [EA] Facepunch 2 publishes for the server browser. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made. You'll find them at the top of this page.
How to join
How do I join [EA] Facepunch 2?
Enter client.connect 103.194.164.43:28015 in the console, which F1 opens once Rust is running. Launch Rust and join on this page is the other way: Rust opens through Steam and connects you.
