The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 973Acc. 2026.0973
[US East] Facepunch 2
Rust server · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Online 40.160.19.18:28015 checked 11m 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 Oct17:40 · FW 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectednow, 28 Oct 2026, 11:10 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Thu 1 Oct 202617:40 UTC FW26d ago
- Peak
- 21
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 5
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 8d 7h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 7hThu 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 21, 47 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 4% of all ranked servers. 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 East] Facepunch 2?
The same operator most likely runs [US East] Facepunch 2 and 124 other servers we track, as all publish a playrust.com hostname.
What do the server tags on [US East] Facepunch 2 mean?
You can see the tags [US East] Facepunch 2 publishes, read by the game's server browser: 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): This server runs standard Rust survival; mp400 (Max players): The server holds 400 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635; matching it is required to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 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; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^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 East] Facepunch 2?
These Rust Server History lists include [US East] Facepunch 2: Rust tutorial servers: the record, Official Rust servers: the record, North America Rust servers and The vanilla Rust servers on record. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; 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; Boxes: Official only.
Server record
Does [US East] Facepunch 2 run smoothly?
274 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, never below 228. As many as 145,112 entities were in the world: buildings, deployables and the rest. Memory use peaked at 6,687 MB. Lag, as players feel it, has two sources: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which version of Rust does [US East] Facepunch 2 run?
On Windows, [US East] Facepunch 2 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match to join, and Steam handles that update.
Is [US East] Facepunch 2 online, and how reliable is it?
The live count shows [US East] Facepunch 2 online right now. Going by its reported uptime, it restarted about 21 hours ago. Of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 168 were up: 100% of the time. First seen by Rust Server History on 13 September 2026.
Where is [US East] Facepunch 2 located?
No region tag is published by [US East] Facepunch 2, but its name points to North America. Where a server says it is is shown on Rust Server History; where the machine stands is not looked up. Its entry gives 40.160.19.18:28015 as the address.
Wipe history
What does wipe day look like on [US East] Facepunch 2?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 21 players. On the latest wipe, 47 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on [US East] Facepunch 2?
[US East] Facepunch 2 wipes with the force wipe, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 17 hours ago. The tags list a monthly wipe schedule.
Population
How does [US East] Facepunch 2 rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place [US East] Facepunch 2 at #973, among the top 4% of all ranked servers.
How busy is [US East] Facepunch 2?
Of its 400 slots, [US East] Facepunch 2 currently has 6 filled. A seven-day average of 9 players is recorded, with a peak of 19. The busiest hour of the last 48 was 02:00 UTC, averaging 16 players.
Rules and settings
What are the rules and settings on [US East] Facepunch 2?
No gather rate is stated in the name of [US East] Facepunch 2. The limit of 8 players per group is the game's default. Under game mode, the entry reads survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are permitted. The in-game Official tab of Rust lists it. The name vanilla is used here: nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, no kits, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is active.
Which map does [US East] Facepunch 2 run?
Seed 519156865, size 4,500: such is the procedural map [US East] Facepunch 2 runs, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since one size and seed always give one map.
Join record
How do I join [US East] Facepunch 2?
Entering client.connect 40.160.19.18:28015 in the console (F1) connects you to this server. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same: it opens the game via Steam and connects on your behalf.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,ts8
On Rust Server History
Game
gmrust
mp400
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
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.