Players
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small
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 4% of all ranked servers, and #50 of the quad servers (top 6%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 3h. 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 21, 31 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 29 Oct, 10:16 UTC5h ago | – | – | running | 7 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:47 UTC35d ago | 21 | – | – | 15 |
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
Host and version
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small online, and how reliable is it?
You will find [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small online at this moment. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 3 hours ago. It stayed up 99% of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 13 September 2026.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small located?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small points to Europe, though no region tag is published. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. 79.137.98.21:28017 is its address.
Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?
Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627 on Windows is the version [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs. Joining needs the same protocol on your game; Steam handles the update.
Does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run smoothly?
It averaged 149 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 107. At its fullest it held 117,000 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 3,865 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
Population
How busy is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small has 13 of its 250 slots filled right now. Over the last week it averaged 10 players; the high point was 25. 13:00 UTC was the peak of the last 48 hours, with 19 players on average.
How does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small rank against other Rust servers?
The top 4% of ranked servers includes [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, at #955 on player hours for the last week. #50 is where it sits in the quad group.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 21 players. 31 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next wipe, the force wipe that takes every Rust server. 5 hours is how long ago its current world was made. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
The name [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small carries no gather rate. A group can have up to 4 players, according to quad. You play softcore, Facepunch's gentler mode: some loot stays with you. PvP is on: players fight and raid. Rust's Official tab lists it in-game. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs a procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 597885, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Tag guide
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
A shared operator is likely for [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small and 124 other tracked servers, all publishing a playrust.com hostname.
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
These Rust Charts lists include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small: Rust tutorial servers, EU Rust servers and Official Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small mean?
These are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small makes public, and the server browser reads them: 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 softcore ruleset is in play, which is easier; mp250 (Max players): It has 250 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 4; v2636 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2636 to get in; cs169627 (Build): This server reports build 169627; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the Facepunch force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial runs here for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): A custom tag: added by the owner or a plugin, not by Facepunch. Player numbers now, queue size and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Join details
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
