The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 1,290Acc. 2026.1290
[EU] Facepunch 3
Rust server · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Online 79.137.98.11:28015 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 Oct17:41 · FW 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectednow, 29 Oct 2026, 08:10 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Thu 1 Oct 202617:41 UTC FW27d ago
- Peak
- 27
- 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 7d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 10hThu 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 27, 1 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 6% 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.
Lists and tags
Who runs [EU] Facepunch 3?
[EU] Facepunch 3 and 124 other servers we track share a playrust.com hostname, so the same operator most likely runs them.
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch 3 mean?
You can see the tags [EU] Facepunch 3 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp400 (Max players): 400 slots are set on this server; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe applies here, as does the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped; ^t (Tutorial on): The server offers Facepunch's tutorial to new players; sc3 (Custom tag): Standard Rust does not define this tag; the owner or a plugin added it. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and the world's creation time, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch 3?
The Rust Server History lists that feature [EU] Facepunch 3 are: Rust tutorial servers: the record, European Rust servers, Official Rust servers: the record and The vanilla Rust servers on record. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; 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 entry
Does [EU] Facepunch 3 run smoothly?
Averaged over the last 48 hours: 233 server fps, with 222 the lowest. As many as 129,460 entities were in the world: buildings, deployables and the rest. Up to 5,771 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 [EU] Facepunch 3 run?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch 3 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match to join, and Steam handles that update.
Is [EU] Facepunch 3 online, and how reliable is it?
At this moment [EU] Facepunch 3 is online. About 19 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. It was up for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Server History first saw it.
Where is [EU] Facepunch 3 located?
No region tag is published by [EU] Facepunch 3, but its name points to Europe. Where a server says it is is shown on Rust Server History; where the machine stands is not looked up. You will find it at 79.137.98.11:28015.
Wipe log
What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch 3?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 27 players. At 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch 3?
The force wipe is the only wipe on [EU] Facepunch 3, 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 27 days 14 hours ago. Its tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Population
How does [EU] Facepunch 3 rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last seven days put [EU] Facepunch 3 at #1,290: a place in the top 6% of all ranked servers.
How busy is [EU] Facepunch 3?
Against 400 slots, [EU] Facepunch 3 records 4 players right now. A seven-day average of 6 players is recorded, with a peak of 19. An average of 13 players at 19:00 UTC made that the busiest hour of the last 48.
Rules, map
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch 3?
The name of [EU] Facepunch 3 carries no gather rate. At 8 players, the group limit matches the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game, with gathering, building and raiding. You may fight and raid other players. The in-game Official tab of Rust lists it. The name vanilla is used here: facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped. VAC from Valve is switched on.
Which map does [EU] Facepunch 3 run?
A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1909391378 is what [EU] Facepunch 3 runs, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps: the same size and seed give the same map.
How to join
How do I join [EU] Facepunch 3?
Entering client.connect 79.137.98.11:28015 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,sc3,ts8
On Rust Server History
Game
gmrust
mp400
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^t
Other
sc3
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.