The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 306Acc. 2026.0306
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2
Rust server · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Online 148.113.198.11:28020 checked 7m ago
The timeline
Wipes
Every wipe on record as a dated marker, the force wipes among them, and the wipes expected next. Newest first in the record below.
13 Sep Now 1 Oct17:41 · FW 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectednow, 29 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Thu 1 Oct 202617:41 UTC FW28d ago
- Peak
- 147
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 17
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.
The rhythm
Wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 34d 22hThu 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 147, 7 hours in.
The record
Population, performance and rank
Kept in folders: players every five minutes, every hour and every day; the server answering for itself; its rank among every server ranked.
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
Top 1% of all ranked servers, and #16 of the quad servers (top 2%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Related exhibits
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Visitors' questions about this exhibit
Quick answers
Answered from the figures on this page.
Tags, lists
Who runs [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?
The same operator most likely runs [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 and 124 other servers we track, as all publish a playrust.com hostname.
What do the server tags on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags published by [US] Facepunch Softcore 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): This server runs softcore, the easier ruleset; mp300 (Max players): Slot count: 300; ts4 (Group limit): A team may hold no more than 4; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635; matching it is required to join; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): On a monthly schedule the server wipes with Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust does not define this tag; the owner or a plugin added it. At the top of this page you also see the current players, the queue and when the world was made, all from the tags.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?
The Rust Server History lists that feature [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 are: Rust tutorial servers: the record, Official Rust servers: the record and North America Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; 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.
The record
Does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 run smoothly?
Averaged over the last 48 hours: 88 server fps, with 38 the lowest. As many as 354,048 entities were in the world: buildings, deployables and the rest. Up to 10,562 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, has two sources: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which version of Rust does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the build [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 runs, on Windows. The protocol must match to join, and Steam handles that update.
Is [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 online, and how reliable is it?
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2 is listed as online now. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 7 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours, or 99% of the time, over the last 7 full days. The first sighting by Rust Server History was on 13 September 2026.
Where is [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 located?
The name of [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 points to North America, but no region tag is published. Where a server says it is is shown on Rust Server History; where the machine stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 148.113.198.11:28020.
Wipe record
What does wipe day look like on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?
147 players on average was the busiest its recent wipes drew. 7 hours into the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2 wipes with the force wipe, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 28 days 2 hours ago its current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Player record
How does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last seven days put [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 at #306: a place in the top 1% of all ranked servers. Ranked against other quad servers, it stands at #16.
How busy is [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?
Against 300 slots, [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 records 31 players right now. Stored history gives a seven-day average of 59 players and a peak of 157. An average of 87 players at 23:00 UTC made that the busiest hour of the last 48.
Rules, map
What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?
The name of [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 carries no gather rate. You may join a group of up to 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's gentler mode, where you retain some loot. You may fight and raid other players. The in-game Official tab of Rust lists it. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is active.
Which map does [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 run?
Generated by the game at size 4,500 with seed 1750336523, the map on [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 is procedural. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since one size and seed always give one map.
How to join
How do I join [US] Facepunch Softcore 2?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 148.113.198.11:28020 to connect. Launch Rust from this page instead and you join through Steam with the connect already made.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp300,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^t,gmsoftcore,cs168909,sc2,ts4
On Rust Server History
Game
gmsoftcore
mp300
ts4
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Gameplay
^t
Other
sc2
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.